Assertion: atheism | /r/HasProperty | the rejection of belief
Facets:
value: in a broad sense
type: OTHER
value: in god
type: OTHER
value: less broadly
type: DEGREE
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
value: merely
type: DEGREE
value: about religion
type: OTHER
value: wrongly
type: MANNER
value: in gods
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Michael Martin and Paul Edwards have responded to criticism-as-faith by emphasizing that atheism can be the rejection of belief, or absence of belief.
text: If atheism is just disbelief in gods, then there is no reason for atheists to be critical of theism and religion.
text: Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded.
text: However, atheism is not a religion, it is merely skepticism about religion.
text: Like we discussed above, atheism is the disbelief in God.
text: Atheism – rejection of belief in the existence of deities.
text: However, the author concludes that Nazi Germany was not a "straightforwardly atheist state", but one which sacrilized notions of blood and nation in a way that is "foreign to mainstream rational atheism" and that while the Soviet Union, which was "avowedly and officially an atheist state", this is not a reason to think that atheism is necessarily evil, though it is a refutation of the idea that atheism must always be benign as "there is I believe a salutary lesson to be learned from the way in which atheism formed an essential part of Soviet Communism, even though Communism does not form an essential part of atheism.
text: Either way, Atheism Plus is secular humanism that explicitly takes a skeptical approach to common social prejudices such as misogyny and racism; the specific reference to atheism acknowledges that atheism itself is only part of a skeptical take on the world.
text: Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist.
text: Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities.