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The term irreligion is a combination of the noun religion and the ir-form of the prefix in-, signifying "not" (similar to irrelevant). It was first attested in French as irréligion in 1527, then in English as irreligion in 1598. It was borrowed into Dutch as irreligie in the 17th century, though it is not certain from which language. [29]
He used the term "civil religion" to describe the specific relation between politics and religion in the U.S. His 1967 article analyzes John F. Kennedy 's inaugural speech: "Considering the separation of church and state, how is a president justified in using the word 'God' at all?
[77] [78] On 21 May 2012, the Norwegian Parliament passed a constitutional amendment that granted the Church of Norway increased autonomy, [79] and states that "the Church of Norway, an Evangelical-Lutheran church, remains Norway's people's church, and is supported by the State as such" ("people's church" or folkekirke is also the name of the ...
Freedom of religion includes, at a minimum, freedom of belief (the right to believe whatever a person, group, or religion wishes, including all forms of irreligion, such as atheism, humanism, existentialism, or other forms of non-belief), but some feel freedom of religion must include freedom of practice (the right to practice a religion or ...
Nonreligious population by country, 2010 [78] Percentage of people in various European countries who said: "I don't believe there is any sort of spirit, God or life force." (2005) [ 79 ] Demographic research services normally do not differentiate between various types of non-religious respondents, so agnostics are often classified in the same ...
Ietsism (Dutch: ietsisme, pronounced [itsˈɪsmə] ⓘ) is an unspecified belief in an undetermined transcendent reality. It is a Dutch term for a range of beliefs held by people who, on the one hand, inwardly suspect – or indeed believe – that "there must be something undefined beyond the mundane which may or may not be possible to be known or proven", but on the other hand do not accept ...
The white supremacist Creativity movement has also been described as a nontheistic religion. [44] The sociologist Auguste Comte devised a religion called the Religion of Humanity based on his Positivist principles. The Religion of Humanity is not a metaphysical religion and as such there are no gods or supernaturalisms in its belief. [45]
It also found 73% of Americans who identify with the Tea Party report they believe in a personal god, 19% believe god is an impersonal force in the universe, and 6% report that they do not believe in a god. It also found 90% of white evangelical Protestants report they believe in a personal god, 8% believe god is an impersonal force in the ...