Wouldn't "polytheist" do it? It simply acknowledges that there are lots of gods; it doesn't mean you're worshiping or paying homage to any of them.
Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!
Oz ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Zenkitty - Aug 17, 2012 2:27:29 pm PDT #18489 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
DebetEsse - Aug 17, 2012 2:28:47 pm PDT #18490 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
apatheistic (I totally just made that up)
§ ita § - Aug 17, 2012 2:35:35 pm PDT #18491 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You don't believe in a god(s) but you don't disbelieve either (and don't worship).
No, you do believe they exist. You just don't prostrate yourself to them. They might have created the world and all that stuff, but you don't supplicate for forgiveness or a better life or anything. Though they could intervene if you did.
The wikipedia definition of both monotheism and polytheism incorporates worship, which is the element I am removing.
It's also a consideration, I've been told, in some sects of Buddhism--some Buddhists think there's a creator, they just don't care to ask for stuff or show especial respect or anything.
Consuela - Aug 17, 2012 2:39:00 pm PDT #18492 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Hello Buffistas!
Guess where I slept last night! Here: [link]
And it was kind of awesome. I hadn't meant to be there, but I was in Santa Barbara for work, and then we had a site visit (check out the photos, so awesome and gorgeous), and it ran ridiculously long, and then it was 6 PM and I'd only gotten as far as Lompoc. So I called ahead (yay for cellphones) and got a room at the Madonna Inn.
And the room was great and so was the steak and the hot tub, although the steak was ridiculously overpriced. But the wine pours are 8oz, so that kind of made up for it.
Some day I'll go back when I don't have to be back on the road at 8AM...
sarameg - Aug 17, 2012 2:40:39 pm PDT #18493 of 30001
Nontheist? Although that probably has another meaning. Oh, I know! Indifferent!
DavidS - Aug 17, 2012 2:41:28 pm PDT #18494 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
apatheistic (I totally just made that up)
Oooh, good coinage!
We should promulgate it and point it out to erinaceous.
Apatheistic: I believe in god(s) but I just don't give a shit.
-t - Aug 17, 2012 3:02:55 pm PDT #18495 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I feel like there must be a word for that in the Discworld already, but I don't know it.
DebetEsse - Aug 17, 2012 3:24:21 pm PDT #18496 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
-t, Weatherwaxianism?
-t - Aug 17, 2012 3:34:31 pm PDT #18497 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hm. That would include a lot of morality that I don't think the word we are looking for needs to carry.
I'm thinking in particular of the atheist philosophers in Ephebe, surely they'd have a term.
Jesse - Aug 17, 2012 3:36:18 pm PDT #18498 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG, I'm watching last night's Big Brother After Dark, and it's fucking hypnotic. Good thing I never signed up for feeds. It is so boring, but I keep watching! It is interesting to see what they get in trouble for talking about.