atheist
Rejects divine existence
An atheist is someone who doesn't believe in God or gods.
The term ranges from active denial that deities exist to simple absence of belief.
She was raised Catholic but became an atheist in college.
Atheist can be self-identified or applied by others, sometimes pejoratively.
The adjective atheistic describes views or arguments: an atheistic worldview.
One lacking religious faith
- unbelieverOne lacking faith
- disbelieverOne who denies truth
- freethinkerRejects doctrine for reason
- skepticOne who doubts claims
doubter · infidel · heretic · apostate · secularist · humanist · materialist · naturalist
Lacking belief in deities
- irreligiousNot devout or pious
- impiousLacking religious respect
- unholyWicked, impious, sinful
- blasphemousDisrespectful toward the divine
sacrilegious · profane · heathen · pagan · infidel · heretical · apostate · ungodly
Nonreligious ethical philosophy
- naturalismWorldview excluding the supernatural
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- empiricismKnowledge through observation
- rationalismReason as knowledge source
positivism · existentialism · nihilism · objectivism · freethought · skepticism · scientism · secularism
Facts supporting truth
- reasonBasis or justification
- logicScience of valid reasoning
- scienceSystematic study through observation
- critical thinkingObjective evaluation of information
skepticism · inquiry · doubt · questioning · debunking · falsifiability · burden of proof · Occam's razor
nonbeliever
One lacking religious faith
- unbelieverOne lacking faith
- disbelieverOne who denies truth
- freethinkerRejects doctrine for reason
skeptic · doubter · infidel · heretic · apostate · secularist · humanist · materialist · naturalist · rationalist
godless
Lacking belief in deities
- irreligiousNot devout or pious
- impiousLacking religious respect
- unholyWicked, impious, sinful
blasphemous · sacrilegious · profane · heathen · pagan · infidel · heretical · apostate · ungodly · faithless
secular humanism
Nonreligious ethical philosophy
- naturalismWorldview excluding the supernatural
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- empiricismKnowledge through observation
rationalism · positivism · existentialism · nihilism · objectivism · freethought · skepticism · scientism · secularism · irreligion
evidence
Facts supporting truth
- reasonBasis or justification
- logicScience of valid reasoning
- scienceSystematic study through observation
critical thinking · skepticism · inquiry · doubt · questioning · debunking · falsifiability · burden of proof · Occam's razor · scientific method
Dawkins
British evolutionary biologist
- HarrisScottish textile origin
- RussellEnglish surname, aristocratic
- NietzscheGerman philosopher of will
Hitchens · Sagan · Ingersoll · Epicurus · Hume · Marx · Freud · Sartre · Camus · Carlin
- A- wordsamoral, apathy, atypical, asymmetric, asymmetry
- faith labelsbeliever, nonbeliever, deist, devout, faithful
- nonbelieversagnostics, nonbeliever, nonbelievers, unbeliever, unbelievers
- freethinkersfreethinker, freethinkers, secularists, rationalist, rationalists
- thinkersthinkers, thinker, philosophers, philosopher, Aristotle
- identitiesalter ego, gender, persona, sexuality, alias
atheisttheist
Accepts a deity exists
believer · monotheist · polytheist · deist · creationist
atheistdevout
Deeply religious, sincere
faithful · worshipper · devotee · religious · true believer