Alatrism or alatry is the recognition of the existence of one or more gods, but with a deliberate lack of worship of any deity. Typically it includes the belief that religious rituals have no supernatural significance, and that gods ignore all prayers and worship.

It is not the same as Deism

Deism

Deism in religious philosophy is the belief that reason and observation of the natural world, without the need for organized religion, can determine that the universe is the product of an all-powerful creator. According to deists, the creator does not intervene in human affairs or suspend the...

, which holds that one or more gods may exist, but do not intervene. Deism does not exclude worship, and alatrism does not exclude the possibility that gods intervene; alatrists usually believe that any divine intervention occurs only for the deities own reasons, unconnected to any encouragement by devotees.

Historical alatrist groups include the Neopythagoreans

Neopythagoreanism

Neopythagoreanism was a Graeco-Alexandrian school of philosophy, reviving Pythagorean doctrines, which became prominent in the 1st and 2nd centuries CE...

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See also

• Atheism
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• Divine command theory
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• Ethics in the Bible
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• Free will
  Free will
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• God as the Devil
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• Lawsuits against God
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• Love of God
  Love of God
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• Maltheism
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• Meta-ethics
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• Atheism
  Atheism
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• Omnibenevolence
  Omnibenevolence
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• Pessimism
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• Summum bonum
  Summum bonum
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