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State atheism needs a reassessment of its Importance level, as it has little to do with atheism and is instead an article about anti-theist/anti-religious actions of governments.
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atheism is personocratic (it is non-personocratic, but studies the "personocratic criterion" and in philosophy and not only; categories are grouped with the hypernymic criterion of focus) (focused on the denial of the supposed precosmic cosmogonic person); naturalism is physiocratic/naturocratic (it is the pure metaphysics of physics; without a personocratic bias [it is impersonal but it's not that its main point])
atheism is a negation; naturalism not
atheism as a term is famous nowadays; naturalism is not and doesn't have enough followers (it's not self-evident on philosophical doctrines people to easily move from one idea to a better defined)
usually (but according to Pew Reseach, Robert Sapolsky and many others) they both accept only science (partially won't do, because theists do the same; partiality here is a bad criterion for categorization)
It's not nonsense at all. The introduction has been exhaustively debated on this talk page (see the archive) and it is all rigorously backed up by reliable sources. -- Scjessey (talk) 12:34, 17 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Some agnostics are also atheists. The two are not mutually exclusive. The first line speaks well to that and lines up with what actual sources say on the subject. Millahnna (talk) 19:01, 17 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Furthermore, the absence of belief sense of atheism is older than Huxley's coinage of agnostic in 1870. ~ Röbin Liönheart (talk) 04:22, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Referencing and citation: criterion met
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