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Revision as of 09:59, 31 January 2006 by Mike18xx (talk | contribs) (Removed disambiguation tag.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)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 a religion's deities). More generally, an infidel is one who doubts or rejects a particular (usually heirarchical) doctrine, system, or principle.
- In Christianity, "infidel" is an archaism now supplanted variously by "atheist", "agnostic", "heathen" or "pagan".
- In Islam, an Arabic term romanized as "kafir" is used for non-Muslims and is often translated as "infidel".
(See Infidel (computer game) for the 1983 computer text adventure from Infocom.)