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Nontheism

A position or tradition not organized around belief in a personal god or gods. Introduced in connection with Epicurus's account of divine indifference and developed fully through Buddhism's core doctrine, which centers its diagnosis-and-cure structure on no creator deity, and through the modern history of disbelief.

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