Atheism and Post- Modernism

Question 1

Negative Atheism- ( Weak Atheism )

Answer 1

A position that asserts a lack of belief in any God or Gods without positive denial of all spiritual powers and supernatural beings.

Question 2

Positive Atheism -( Strong Atheism )

Answer 2

A position that asserts that there is no God; the explicit denial of all spiritual powers and supernatural beings.

Question 3

Agnosticism

Answer 3

A suspension of accepting or rejecting belief in God until their is sufficient data to reach a conclusion. Modern usage has the meaning of regarding God’ Existance and his non- existence as equally probable.

Question 4

Verification Principle

Answer 4

Claims the only criteria for whether or not a statement is meaningful is to know how that statement may be proved true or false.

Question 5

Moral Absolute

Answer 5

Unchanging unethical truth.

Question 6

Religious Puralism

Answer 6

Describes the world view that one religion is not the sole and exclusive source of truth and thus recognises that some level of truth and value exists in at least some other religions.

Question 7

Post modernism

Answer 7

A world view that emphasises the exist nice if different world views and concepts of reality rather than one ‘correct or true’ one.

Question 8

Atheism

Answer 8

Doctrine/ Belief that there is no God