Meaning of atheologist | Babel Free

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A scholar and/or proponent of atheism.

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“The turbulent life and fragmentary writings of a third woman, Colette Peignot (1903-38) are also becoming better known in their own right and not simply for the influence they had on those of her lover during the last years of her life, the self-styled "atheologist" Georges Bataille (1897-1962) who, along with others, was responsible for her posthumous mythologization as "Laure."”

“It would be wrong to use this as a direct proof of God's existence and equally wrong to imagine, along with the atheologists in cosmological physics, that a system of equations can bootstrap its own parameters and constants, also actualizing what is described by those specific equations.”

“In his review of the history of atheism, French atheologist Michel Onfray dates its explicit inception to 1729 and a book published posthumously by the Abbe Jean Meslier, the parish priest of Etrépigny in northeastern France.”

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