Antireligion

Antireligion is opposition to religion. The term may be used to describe opposition to organized religion, or to describe a broader opposition to any form of belief in the supernatural or the divine. Antireligion is distinct from atheism (the absence of a belief in deities) and antitheism (an opposition to belief in deities), although antireligionists may be atheists or antitheists.

History

According to historian Michael Burleigh, antireligion found its first mass expression in revolutionary France in response to organised resistance to "organised ... irreligion...an 'anti-clerical' and self-styled 'non-religious' state."

The Soviet Union directed antireligious campaigns at all faiths, including Christian, Islamic, Buddhist and Shamanist religions. In the 1930s, during the Stalinist period, the government destroyed church buildings or put them into secular use (as museums of religion and atheism, clubs or storage facilities), executed clergy, prohibited the publication of most religious material and persecuted some members of religious groups. Less violent attempts to reduce or eliminate the influence of religion in society were also carried out at other times in Soviet history. For instance, it was usually necessary to be an atheist in order to acquire any important political position or any prestigious scientific job; thus many people became atheists in order to advance their careers. Different sources disagree on the results of all this, with some claiming the death of 21 million Russian Orthodox Christians by the Soviet government, not including other religious groups or persecutions without killings, and other sources stating that only up to 500,000 Russian Orthodox Christians were persecuted by the Soviet government, not including other religious groups.

Anti

Anti may refer to:

  • Anti (mythology), the ferryman who carried Isis to Set's island in Egyptian mythology
  • Änti, or Antaeus, half-giant in Greek and Berber mythology
  • Áńt’į, or Corpse powder, Navajo folkloric substance made from powdered corpses
  • ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival, a yearly international live-art festival held in Kuopio, Finland
  • Antiparticle, a particle with the same mass but opposite charges in particle physics
  • Anti addition in organic chemistry
  • Anti conformation, in alkane stereochemistry
  • Anti, as a prefix meaning "against"
  • Music

  • ANTI-, an American independent record label
  • Anti (album), an album by Rihanna
  • Anti (EP), an EP by Autechre
  • Anti, an album by T. Raumschmiere
  • People

  • Carlo Anti (1889–1961), Italian archaeologist
  • Michael Anti (sport shooter) (born 1964), American sport shooter
  • Michael Anti (journalist) (born 1975), Chinese journalist and political blogger
  • Anti, an Inca name for the Asháninka people
  • See also

  • Ante (disambiguation)
  • Opposition (disambiguation)
  • Opposite (disambiguation)
  • Antić

    Antić is a Serbo-Croatian surname. It may refer to:

  • Aleksandar Antić (born 1969), Serbian politician
  • Boško Antić (born 1944), Bosnian Serb footballer
  • Čedomir Antić (born 1974), Serbian historian, political activist
  • Dejan Antić (born 1968), Serbian grandmaster
  • Goran Antić (born 1985), Swiss footballer
  • Igor Antić (born 1962), French-Serbian visual artist
  • Ivan Antić (1923–2005), Serbian architect
  • Mika Antić (1932–1986), Yugoslav poet, film director
  • Nikola Antić (born 1994), Serbian footballer
  • Pero Antić (born 1982), Macedonian basketballer
  • Radomir Antić (born 1948), Serbian football manager
  • Sava Antić (1930–1998), Serbian footballer and manager
  • Slobodan Antić (born 1950), former Yugoslav footballer
  • Srđan Antić (born 1960), Serbian basketball coach
  • Svetlana Mugoša-Antić (born 1964), Serbian handball player
  • Zoran Antić (born 1975), Serbian footballer
  • Antic without a diacritical mark may refer to:

  • ANTIC - Display chip used in the Atari 8-bit family of computers.
  • Antic (magazine) - Defunct US Atari computer magazine.
  • Šantić

    Šantić is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Aleksa Šantić (18681924), Bosnian Serb poet
  • Tony Šantić (born 1952), noted Australian thoroughbred owner and tuna farmer
  • Religion

    Religion is a cultural system of behaviors and practices, world views, ethics, and social organisation that relate humanity to an order of existence. About 84% of the world's population is affiliated with one of the five largest religions, namely Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism or forms of folk religion.

    With the onset of the modernisation of and the scientific revolution in the western world, some aspects of religion have cumulatively been criticized. Though the religiously unaffliated, including atheism and agnosticism, have grown globally, many of the unaffiliated still have various religious beliefs. About 16% of the world's population is religiously unaffiliated.

    The study of religion encompasses a wide variety of academic disciplines, including comparative religion and social scientific studies. Theories of religion offer explanations for the origins and workings of religion.

    Etymology

    Religion

    Religion (from O.Fr. religion "religious community", from L. religionem (nom. religio) "respect for what is sacred, reverence for the gods", "obligation, the bond between man and the gods") is derived from the Latin religiō, the ultimate origins of which are obscure. One possibility is an interpretation traced to Cicero, connecting lego "read", i.e. re (again) + lego in the sense of "choose", "go over again" or "consider carefully". Modern scholars such as Tom Harpur and Joseph Campbell favor the derivation from ligare "bind, connect", probably from a prefixed re-ligare, i.e. re (again) + ligare or "to reconnect", which was made prominent by St. Augustine, following the interpretation of Lactantius. The medieval usage alternates with order in designating bonded communities like those of monastic orders: "we hear of the 'religion' of the Golden Fleece, of a knight 'of the religion of Avys'".

    Honeymoon (Lana Del Rey album)

    Honeymoon is the fourth studio album and third major-label record by American singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey. It was released on September 18, 2015, by UMG Recordings, and was co-produced by Del Rey alongside longtime collaborators Rick Nowels and Kieron Menzies.

    Upon release, Honeymoon received acclaim from music critics. The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, selling 116,000 units in first week, and peaking at number one in Australia, Greece and Ireland. "High by the Beach" was released as its lead single on August 10, 2015, and was followed by promotional singles "Terrence Loves You" and "Honeymoon". "Music to Watch Boys To" was released on September 11, 2015 as the album's second single.

    Background and recording

    Del Rey finished the recording of her third studio album, Ultraviolence, in March 2014, and by June of the same year she had begun working on a follow-up idea stating that the process was "growing into something I really like. I'm kind of enjoying sinking into this more noirish feel for this one. It's been good". In a December 2014 interview with Galore Magazine, Del Rey revealed she had begun working on a new album. In January 2015, Lana Del Rey announced via Billboard that she had begun work on her fourth studio album, announcing she was going to release an album entitled Honeymoon sometime that same year. During the time of the announcement, Del Rey also said that she had written and recorded nine songs that could possibly be featured on the album and stated that she was covering Nina Simone's "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood". During the interview with Billboard, Del Rey stated that the album would be different from her previous release, Ultraviolence (2014), but similar to her first major release, Born to Die (2012), and the extended play Paradise (2012).

    Religion (album)

    Religion is the seventh studio album by Spear of Destiny, released by Eastworld Recordings in 1997 (see 1997 in music).

    Track listing

    All songs written by Kirk Brandon.

  • "Rainy Day" - 4:55
  • "Iona" - 4:44
  • "Prison Planet" - 4:38
  • "Magic Eye" - 2:11
  • "Mile In My Shoes" - 5:32
  • "X" - 4:18
  • "Female Hero (7 Letters)" - 4:49
  • "Werewolve" - 5:37
  • "Slayride" - 4:34
  • "Total Kontrol" - 5:53
  • Personnel

  • Kirk Brandon - Vocals and guitar
  • Art Smith - Drums
  • John McNutt - Guitars
  • Mark Celvallos - Bass
  • Podcasts:

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