neoatheist
Etymology
From neo- + atheist.
neoatheist means A member of the vocally anti-religious movement that came to prominence in the early 2000s. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
Why this word is great
NEOATHEIST — [Noun] A member of the assertively anti-religious movement that rose to prominence in the early 2000s, characterized by its public, often polemical critique of religious faith as not merely false but socially pernicious. From the prefix neo- (meaning "new" or "recent") and atheist (meaning "a person who disbelieves in the existence of a god or gods"). Unlike the private, quiet atheist, who may hold a personal disbelief, or the suspended, uncertain agnostic, who dwells in epistemological fog, the neoatheist is an evangelist for nullity, armed with evolutionary biology and a prosecutorial style. It is the glare of a lecture-hall screen displaying a scripture’s contradiction, the fervent certainty in a YouTube lecture dismantling an argument from design, and the performative echo of a debate where faith is framed as a public threat—a creed defined wholly by what it rejects, preached with the fervor of a counter-sermon.
noun
- A member of the vocally anti-religious movement that came to prominence in the early 2000s.“A fundamental blind spot that so many of the neoatheist critics of religion share is that they have been unable to imagine an authentic religion that does not operate with certainty as its only common coin ...”