| 词汇 | example_english_atheism |
| 释义 | Examples of atheismThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Unfortunately, much of the rest of the volume simply confirms the impression, if not the fact, that atheism needs theism to give it life. So a global denial of their veridicality would amount to an ontological claim that is, if not synonymous with atheism, at least antagonistic to theism. Interestingly, atheism contributed towards cronyism, while the relationship between age brackets and responses were mixed, with no clear pattern. This problem could tip the scales toward atheism if the delimiting defeaters for the problem of evil failed to delimit the implications of divine hiddenness. I shall now consider the most spectacular cases, where the charges of atheism and occultism did their work. That is a bit like regarding atheism a form of heresy. To many, experimental talk of souls seemed to smack of precisely that atheism which these natural philosophers claimed to have refuted. It articulated a set of values that conservatives wanted desperately to disavow, combining anti-government rhetoric, staunch pro-capitalism, and atheism into a particularly noxious mixture. In such a world, atheism would have triumphed. But while this option does not lead immediately to atheism, it may do so indirectly. This is undoubtedly a book all serious students and scholars of atheism will want to have on their shelves. Although we shall not discuss this in depth, there seems to be a strong link between atheism and reluctance against use of narrowtrust connections. His idea is to invoke ' the most probable ' theism and to oppose it to atheism alone, without taking into account improbable theisms. The "aristocratic" idea of atheism was an artificial product of "philosophism," while the "entirely popular" idea of an "incomprehensible power" arose naturally. So, paradoxically, the triumph of atheism would lead to its own demise, since it would destroy that which gives it its identity. Practical atheism or scepticism thus subsumed, if they did not ignore, speculative atheism. In cases of ' heresy, atheism, and apostasy ', for instance, penalty of life and limb was very much at issue. But the majority always had their reasons to favor religion over atheism, even without occasions to worry about it very much. At one extreme, he can be presented as accepting (or at least as being committed to accepting) a kind of atheism. It is significant that atheism is rarely included in their otherwise comprehensive lists of religions to be tolerated. To take only one obvious case, some practitioners assume atheism, some assume theism. If atheism were true, then purpose theory would entail nihilism, the view that our lives are meaningless. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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