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Athiest vs Religious - What's the difference?

athiest | religious |

As nouns the difference between athiest and religious

is that athiest is while religious is a member of a religious order, ie a monk or nun.

As an adjective religious is

concerning religion.

athiest

English

Noun

(head)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2003 , title = Islam: Questions and Answers - Schools of Thought, Religions and Sects , author = Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman , quotee = Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid , volume = 8 , publisher = MSA Publication Limited , isbn = 9781861792914 , page = 89 , passage = The athiest' is destined to Hell fire in the Hereafter. This is because the ' athiest refuses the most basic belief which is the existance(SIC) and oneness of Allaah. , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=xcPwGmYwCKUC&pg=PA89 }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2004 , title = Red, White & Liberal: How Left Is Right & Right Is Wrong , author = Alan Colmes , publisher = HarperCollins , isbn = 0060562978 , quotee = "Mr. S" (username) , page = 281 , passage = If you were an honest journelist(SIC) you would admit that you were an athiest and love to see a birth canal baby die with with(SIC) a shot of fermaldihide(SIC) in the brain. , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=bXq-6gltFDgC&pg=PA281 }}

    religious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Concerning religion.
    • It is the job of this court to rule on legal matters. We do not consider religious issues.
  • Committed to the practice of religion.
    • I was much more religious as a teenager than I am now.
  • Highly dedicated, as one would be to a religion.
    • I'm a religious fan of college basketball.

    Antonyms

    * (concerning religion) * (committed to religion) * (highly dedicated)

    Hyponyms

    * Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, Baha'i, Wiccan, Eckist, Druid, Jain, , Sikh, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Unitarian Universalist, New Ager, reconstructionist, LaVeyan Satanist, Scientologist, Rastafarian, Taoist, pagan, spiritist, humanist, Thelemite, Confucianist

    Related terms

    * irreligious * religion * religious education * religious leader * religious order * religious studies * religiously * religiousness * sacrilegious

    Noun

    (religious)
  • A member of a religious order, i.e. a monk or nun.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 354:
    • Towards the end of the seventh century the monks of Fleury [...] clandestinely excavated the body of Benedict himself, plus the corpse of his even more shadowy sister and fellow religious , Scholastica.

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