Religious) belief and atheism from a semiotic viewpoint

摘要: The article attempts to give a semiotic definition of the intellectual attributes belief (in its broader sense), religious and atheism, treating all three them as sign systems – cultural languages. To define formal structure phenomenon religion, five aspects corresponding communicative act should be considered orientational, sign-creating, cognitive, teleological energetic ones. Belief an orientational cannot treated without including autocommunication: I-you relation is accompanied by I-I in form vertical horizontal topological imaginations. sign-creating aspect expressed, on one hand, performative characteristics utterances (utterance = act) and, other symbolic mnemonic programming. As cognitive act, communication typical mythological, expressing identification with addressee subjective eternity relation. Teleologically, connected existential projection; energetically we treat energeia creative force man. Relying Scriptures theological literature (mainly works Paul Tillich), analyses appearance these sign-creating. Atheism negation God formally antithetic thinking, which characterized symmetry plus-side minus-side. Based belief, it particularly interesting observe how Marx (and his disciples) have “furnishedˮ dedicative thinking has also given birth earthly gods.