atheocracy
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɒkɹəsi
Noun
[edit]atheocracy
- An atheist or irreligious state.
- 1907, Thomas Whittaker, The Liberal State: A Speculation, Watts & Co., page 14:
- An atheocracy is not a practicable form of government.
- 1950, William Pepperell Montague, Great Visions of Philosophy: Varieties of Speculative Thought in the West from the Greeks to Bergson, The Open Court Publishing Company, page 32:
- An atheocracy of the Marxian type is as intolerant of liberty of thought as any Holy Roman Empire or Bible-ridden company of Puritans.
- 2012 February 22, Robert Joustra, “Beware the secular atheocracy”, in The Globe and Mail:
- More than a few thinkers have noted the irony of secularism as itself constituting a de facto “religious” system of thought, which defines how and why we can believe things, and where we can talk about them. As some might put it: a secular atheocracy.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:atheocracy.