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Agapism is belief in selfless, charitable, non-erotic (brotherly) love, spiritual love, love of the soul. It can mean belief that such love (or " agape ") should be the sole ultimate value and that all other values are derived from it, or that the sole moral imperative is to love.
Agape (/ ɑː ˈ ɡ ɑː p eɪ, ˈ ɑː ɡ ə ˌ p eɪ, ˈ æ ɡ ə-/; [1] from Ancient Greek ἀγάπη (agápē)) is "the highest form of love, charity" and "the love of God for [human beings] and of [human beings] for God". [2]
An 1807 satirical painting by James Gillray showing King George III of the United Kingdom saying "bring in the papists!". The words Popery (adjective Popish) and Papism (adjective Papist, also used to refer to an individual) are mainly historical pejorative words in the English language for Roman Catholicism, once frequently used by Protestants and Eastern Orthodox Christians to label their ...
The notion of paganism, as it is generally understood today, was created by the early Christian Church. It was a label that Christians applied to others, one of the antitheses that were central to the process of Christian self-definition. As such, throughout history it was generally used in a derogatory sense.
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Apatheism (/ ˌ æ p ə ˈ θ iː ɪ z əm /; a portmanteau of apathy and theism) is the attitude of apathy toward the existence or non-existence of God(s).It is more of an attitude rather than a belief, claim, or belief system.
Ignosticism and theological noncognitivism are similar although whereas the ignostic says "every theological position assumes too much about the concept of God", [1] the theological noncognitivist claims to have no concept whatever to label as "a concept of God", [2] but the relationship of ignosticism to other nontheistic views is less clear.
The phaneron (Greek φανερός [phaneros] "visible, manifest" [1] [2]) is the subject matter of phenomenology, or of what Charles Sanders Peirce later called phaneroscopy. [3]