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== Origin of the word apatheism ==
The Ontario Consultants of Religious Tolerances writes:
The term "Apatheism" is a portmanteau 1 -- a combination of two words. They may be considered a fusing of:
*"Apathy" and "Theism" or
*"Apathy and "Atheism."...
The origin of "Apatheisms" is unclear:
bullet According to the Wikipedia article on Apatheism, 2 the website titled "The Church of Apatheism" went online in the year 2000. 3 The latter is believed to be a satiric web site, although it is often difficult to determine which religious web sites are satiric and which are serious.
bullet According to the Global Oneness Commitment Foundation, the term was used on message boards as early as 2000-JUL. 4
bullet Johnathan Rauch wrote an article on Apatheism in the 2003-MAY edition of The Atlantic magazine. 5
bullet According to the Urban Dictionary, it was coined in 2004 by Grayson Scantelbury in Vancouver, BC, Canada.<ref>[http://www.religioustolerance.org/apatheism.htm Apatheism: "Do god(s) exist? I don't know & I don't really care"]</ref>}}
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