infidels
Those without faith
Infidels is the plural of infidel—a person who doesn't share your religious faith.
The word appears most often in historical or religious contexts, where it carries the perspective of the accuser: medieval Christians called Muslims infidels, and vice versa.
The crusaders marched to reclaim the Holy Land from the infidels.
The term can also mean simply one who lacks religious belief.
Challenger of official doctrine
- apostateOne who renounces faith
- blasphemerOne who insults deity
- unbelieverOne lacking faith
- heathenIrreligious nonbeliever
pagan · nonbeliever · godless · irreligious · impious · disbeliever · kafir · excommunicated
Rejects doctrine for reason
- skepticOne who doubts claims
- atheistOne denying gods exist
- agnosticFlexible across platforms
- secularistAdvocate for nonreligious governance
rationalist · humanist · nonconformist · iconoclast · dissenter · doubter · questioner · materialist
heretic
Challenger of official doctrine
- apostateOne who renounces faith
- blasphemerOne who insults deity
- unbelieverOne lacking faith
heathen · pagan · nonbeliever · godless · irreligious · impious · disbeliever · kafir · excommunicated · anathema
freethinker
Rejects doctrine for reason
secularist · rationalist · humanist · nonconformist · iconoclast · dissenter · doubter · questioner · materialist · empiricist
Saracen
Medieval Arab warrior
Moor · Saladin · crusader · holy war · reconquest · siege · conquest · Jerusalem · battlefield · Christendom
- nonbelieversatheist, atheists, agnostic, agnostics, nonbeliever
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
- troublemakerstroublemaker, rascals, delinquents, imps, brats
- CrusadesFirst Crusade, crusade, crusader, Third Crusade, Knights Templar
- Eastern talesArabian Nights, Scheherazade, One Thousand and One Nights, Sinbad, Aladdin
infidelsbelievers
Those having faith
faithful · true believers · adherents · devout · communicants
- marital infidelityCheating within wedlock