What is "alatrism"

Alatrism or alatry ( Greek: from the privative ἀ- + λατρεία (latreia) = worship) is the recognition of the existence of one or more gods, but with a deliberate lack of worship of any deity. Typically it includes the belief that religious rituals have no supernatural significance, and that gods ignore all prayers and worship.

It is not the same as Deism, which holds that one or more gods may exist, but do not intervene. Deism does not exclude worship, and alatrism does not exclude the possibility that gods intervene; alatrists usually believe that any divine intervention occurs only for the deities own reasons, unconnected to any encouragement by devotees.

Historical alatrist groups include the Neopythagoreans.