Atheist
| Atheist link (religion) | |
|---|---|
| A religious belief. |
Atheism is in simple terms the believe no god exists.
Positioning
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists.[1]
Origin
The first individuals to identify themselves as atheists lived in the 1700s during the Age of Enlightenment. The French Revolution, was - along mass murder of aristocrats and perhaps not a coincidence - known for a high growth of atheists in France. In 1967, Albania declared itself the first official atheist country according to its policy of state Marxism.