In the philosophy of Naturalism, Parmenides argued that reality is nothing but a succession of appearances independent of each other and thus without a special, abstract being. Thus, mankind and the world are but “the appearances,” and God is but the appearance of God. To this day, the philosophical position on Naturalism is the most influential one in the field of naturalistic philosophy. Other philosophers who held similar views include Jean Baptiste, Leibniz, Spinoza, Descartes, and Oxford’s philosopher, Thomas inductive. All these philosophers rejected the idea that there is a God or an ideal entity involved in the causation of events.
Because of its rejection of religion and traditional authority, antinomianism did not receive a widespread reception among the educated elite of European society until the nineteenth century. However, as time went on, this philosophical stance came to be associated with a specific, intellectual movement. The most prominent of these was liberalism, which opposes any involvement of religion in politics and society. Other forms of liberalism are Distributism, Humanist, Utilitarian, and Romanticism. The moral arguments of these liberal philosophers are often used in modern debates concerning morality and social issues.
The word “antinomianism” is derived from an ancient Greek term referring to religion, imagism, or superstition. In recent years the term antinomianism has become commonly used in the English language to describe skepticism regarding the existence of a Supreme Being or deity. The skeptical view is related to the pantheism or the belief, “Everything in the universe is greater than us.” Other popular terms under this category include agnosticism, fatalism, gnostic, irreligence, irrationality, neo-nationalism, poly-glutamic, rationalism, skepticism, and so on.