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An "infidel" is an unbeliever concerning central tenets of a religion, often used in a pejorative sense to describe those who explicitly deny them (especially regarding asserted aspects of the religion's deity). More generally, an infidel is one who doubts or rejects a particular (usually heirarchical) doctrine, system, or principle.

• In Islam, an Arabic term Latin alphabetized as "kafir" is used for non-Muslims.
• In Christianity, "infidel" is an archaism now supplanted variously by "atheist", "agnostic", "heathen" or "pagan"; but the word survives in English as a general term and as a common translation of the Islamic "kafir".
• In Judaism, "Goyim" and "Gentile" denote non-Jews and non-Israelites, respectively.
• In Hinduism, "nastik" describes one who does not recognize the authority of the Vedas, and "mleccha", someone who does not follow the Hindu way of living.

(See Infidel (computer game) for the 1983 computer text adventure from Infocom.)

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