A skeptic is:
1. One who questions the fundamental doctrines of religion, especially
of the Christian religion. 2. One who refuses concurrence in generally accepted
conclusions in science, philosophy, etc ....
Syn.: agnostic, atheist, deist, disbeliever, freethinker, infidel,
unbeliever. The skeptic doubts divine revelation; the disbeliever and
the unbeliever reject it; the disbeliever with more intellectual
dissent, the unbeliever (in the common acception) with indifference or
with opposition of heart as well as of intellect. Infidel is an
opprobrious term that once might almost have been said to be geographical in
its range. The crusaders called all Mohammedans infidels, and were so
called by them in return; the word is commonly applied to any decided opponent
of an accepted religion. The atheist denies that there is a God; the deist admits
the existence of God, but denies that the Christian Scriptures are a revelation
from him; the agnostic denies either that we do know or that we can know
whether there is a God.2
2 The Practical Standard Dictionary (New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co.,
1927), p. 1061.
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