Otiositas

Otiositas is the Latin word for "doing nothing" or "idleness".

In the 48th chapter of the Regula Benedicti (De opera manuum cotidiano) it says:

"Otiositas inimica est animae, et ideo certis temporibus occupari debent fratres in labore manuum, certis iterum horis in lectione divina."

“Idleness is the enemy of the soul. Therefore the brothers should be busy with manual labor at certain times and with holy reading at certain hours. "

With Otiositas but also the subject of the seventh day of creation in the Bible described. On the seventh day God rested and contemplated his creation.

In religious studies one understands by an "otiosen high god", as he is often in the African religions , a distant creator or high god who no longer has any influence on the fate of his creatures and the world and is therefore usually not worshiped. The Deism describes such a God philosophically.