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The Latin phrase Odium theologicum, literally meaning "theological hatred", is the name given to the particular rancor and hatred generated by disputes over theology. The atheist philosopher Bertrand Russell explained odium theologicum in the following way: Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...
A phrase is a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence. ...
For the emotion Hatred please see Hate Hatred (Nenavist) is a Soviet film of 1975 directed by Samvel Gasparov. ...
Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). It also refers to the study of other religious topics. ...
Atheism, in its broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of gods. ...
These five broad types of question are called analytical or logical, epistemological, ethical, metaphysical, and aesthetic respectively. ...
Wikisource has original works written by or about: Bertrand Russell Writings available online A Free Mans Worship (1903) Am I an Atheist or an Agnostic? Icarus: The Future of Science Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? Ideas that Have Harmed Mankind In Praise of Idleness (1932) Nobel Lecture...
- "The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion."
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- ("An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish'" in Unpopular Essays 1950)
The difference between hatred and odium is that we express hatred and we endure odium. One is active, one passive. "Odious" characterizes the qualities that inspire hatred.
Russell argued that the antidote to odium theologicum is science. The early linguist Leopold Bloomfield saw the necessity of developing linguistics as genuine science, both cumulative and non-personal. In viewing the non-ideological development of the American Linguistics Society, in a talk in 1946, he said that it had
- “saved us from the blight of the odium theologicum and the postulation of schools... denouncing all persons who disagree or who choose to talk about something else," and he added "The struggle with recalcitrant facts, unyielding in their complexity, trains everyone who works actively in science to be humble, and accustoms him to impersonal acknowledgement of error."
In the controversy over the validity of fluxions, Bishop George Berkeley, in his Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics (1735) addressed his Newtonian accuser: Fluxion was Isaac Newtons term for the derivative of a fluent, or continuous function (see: Calculus). ...
Bishop George Berkeley George Berkeley (British English://; Irish English: //) (March 12, 1685 – January 14, 1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley, was an influential Irish philosopher whose primary philosophical achievement is the advancement of what has come to be called subjective idealism, summed up in his dictum, Esse est percipi...
- You reproach me with "Calumny, detraction, and artifice". You recommend such means as are "innocent and just, rather than the criminal method of lessening or detracting from my opponents". You accuse me of the odium Theologicum, the intemperate Zeal of Divines...
Compare intolerance, anathema, abomination. There is also a movie called Intolerance. ...
Anathema (Greek Word: meaning 1. ...
In general, an abomination is something disgusting, hateful, or extremely unpleasant. ...
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