I mean gnomes were an atheistic culture before they got access to priest. That was a defining feature about them.
what god/s do they believe in now?
I would still classify someone who acknowledge those beings as existing, but didnât believe they were god/divinity as an atheist.
Weâve killed multiple beings claiming to be gods before, so not believing in their divinity seems rational.
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Atheism still works in WoW.
Just kill the gods so they donât exist anymore, problem solved.
But also, if one can just âbecomeâ a god, well, itâs hard to be an Atheist lol.
Eonar was just making animals she liked into Wild Gods/Loa.
I heard that on some servers you can be whatever you want.
Why would it not? It would just take the form of not wanting to worship or adhere to one of the many systems instead of the disbelief in it.
Sure, just claim none of the know âGodsâ are true gods and are simply powerful beings but they themselves are a product of an uncaring universe that did not will them into existence but that they only exist by mere chance and coincidence.
the void/the naaru
Idk the night elves do seem to worship Elune as a deity. And the worshipers of the light seem to be theistic in their belief that the light is the one true path ect. The trolls worship the loa, which is more of a pantheon of gods, but even that is still considered theistic. I havenât given it a lot of thought though just what I initially come up with.
I do agree that the average person probably doesnât view it, like the true believers that use their powers do. even if like the night elves and trolls they pay some lip service to it.
So, technically speaking, an Atheist would be hard pressed to have the case of âThere is no afterlife/gods/this or thatâ because, well⌠Itâs a fact of Azerothian life.
One of the Moons is legitimately a Goddess.
Now, Faithless individuals can certainly exist. For example, a human in Duskwood who feels the Light abandoned them as they fight the Hordes of Darkness that exist there, day in, day out, over and over?
THAT in context makes sense. The most âAtheistâ I suspect a mortal of Azeroth would be is just rejection of divinity.
âI need no Gods. I only need myself.â
How dare you. The Light will burn you, heathen.
And if it doesnât, kindly step into this bonfire.
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Athiesm has nothing to di with belief or lack of belief in afterlife. The term just means doesnât believe in any god/s. Not all religions have gods. So they can be athiest but still believe in an afterlife.
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Yeah, it always struck me as a nod to Philosophies and Forces, something they touched on in AD&D2Eâs The Complete Priestâs Handbook and later in 3rd Editionâs Deities & Demigods.
To answer OPâs question⌠I feel like they probably do/definitely do exist! How well-received they are is another story, mindâŚ
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There are people who reject the big bang theory, because it doesnât follow creation theory, but my viewpoint has always been " maybe that is how god creates things?" My memory says Genesis said " God created the heavens and the earth" but it never says HOW does it?
As it relates to Azeroth , I remember Elune for the night elves,I donât actually think the Humanâs said they worshipped anybody even though they have a cathedral in the middle of town and Tauren have the Earthmother. Those are the only ones I can think of offhand at the moment.
Iâd say so. The existence of them doesnât come with an obligation to believe and/or worship them.
No , we went to shadowlands, we meet the arbitar
So God definitely exists in Wow . So atheism is senseless here.
I mean when deities are actively seen and involved in your day to day lives itâs more âfaithâ to assume they arenât real.
What gods? Weâre just robots built by larger robots who were, presumably built by other even larger robots.
Repeat across all parts of the pokemon types chart that became the backbone of this games lore. There is a âZerithâ out there for all of the powers, 3D printing divine robots off the appropriate type.
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The problem with the big bang theory logic is what caused whatever elements to exist and the results of their interactions in the first place? Logically at some point âsomethingâ had to set the foundational rulesâŚand then who made that entity and who made that entity andâŚetc. Any entity otherwise unable to be witness, explained, or otherwise interacted with may as well be a god.
Humans are gods to ants. Realistically though we humans know weâre not godsâŚwe just happen to operate on a level fundamentally ants, if they possessed sentience, would deem us as gods.
Itâs robots all the way down.