How To Use Atheist In A Sentence

We may earnestly believe that they're wrong - whether they're non-Christians, heretics, apostates, agnostics, atheists, or what have you.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. C.S. Lewis
So far is he from admitting the possibility of any dissiliency between the Divine will and absolute right, that he turns the tables on his opponents, and classes among Atheists those of his contemporaries who maintain that God can command what is contrary to the intrinsic right; that He has no inclination to the good of his creatures; that He can justly doom an innocent being to eternal torments; or that whatever God wills is just because He wills it. A Manual of Moral Philosophy
Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts. Dr T.P.Chia
Some shook with superstitious dread; others, driven to atheistical despair, with horrible execrations, again strove to force a passage through the doors. The Scottish Chiefs

Yeah, this kind of unquestioning arrogance is why I'm an atheist. Report: Obama Meets Unconditionally With George Will, Bill Kristol, David Brooks
Not just the actual sodomites like myself, but the Sapphic Sisterhood, the Hamite Alliance, the League of Heathens and Infidels, Atheists Anonymous, a whole panoply of progressive thinkers, aligned and unaligned, to whom your rant reads as the ethically repugnant ravings of a sociopath, given that it has so little concern for aforesaid "empathy". An Open Letter to John C. Wright
That's true, but we have our regulation number of atheists and agnostics as well.
Article 18 protects theistic, non-theistic and atheistic beliefs, as well as the right not to profess any religion or belief.
The term "atheist" is itself confusing, since it is often unclear whether those who use the label understand it to mean a rejection of every notion of God, or a rejection of theism. Science and Religion Around the Blogosphere
The former Archbishop of Canterbury hit out yesterday at extreme atheists who are intolerant of religious views and attempt to deny Christians a voice in public debate.
The criticism that atheists are less moral and honest has been disproved by study after study. Atheists believe that morality is man-made, and follow their moral ideas which are more or less compatible with those of religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
To you, I'm an atheist. To God, I'm the loyal opposition. Woody Allen
Some were preoccupied with God, others were atheistic to the core.
Yet as an atheist and Marxist can we expect that she would understand or appreciate Hindu devotional or yogic practices?
He sang out of doors; Rhona said that he was an atheist who kept his eyes open during grace, said by her mother. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
Atheism is not anti-God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
It gives us a measure of the indulgent sympathy and religious tolerance which prevailed in this Evangelical home, that the parents should have unhesitatingly supplied the boy of fourteen, at some cost of time and trouble, with all the accessible writings of the "atheistical" poet, and with those of his presumably like-minded friend Keats as well. Robert Browning
Atheists are people who think for themselves and defenders of reason, and their conviction that God does not exist is making a significant contribution to the development of thinking, rational and open- minded people. Dr T.P.Chia
Growing up I still remember having hymns in assembly, Bible studies, school nativities etc … They basically made me a better atheist. Think Progress » $2.2 billion.
But at Allah Made Me Funny's show in London only a few atheists and a lone Jew identified themselves in response to a good-humoured request from the stage.
When I grew up the idea of atheistic or non-theistic way of thinking wasn't even an option. Some American Atheists Celebrate Their Own Holiday
Oscillating universe ideas were popularized by atheists like the late Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov solely to avoid the notion of a beginning, with its implications of a Creator.
In religion, he started as an ardent Catholic and then became a tub-thumping atheist.
Most leaders of evolutionary thought were strongly atheistic.
Roberts meant a lot to a vast audience of Pentecostals, those believers ridiculed - by atheists, agnostics and mainstream religions alike - as backwater snake charmers, poor, uneducated serfs lucky to scrape up enough money to pay the rent on the shack and procure "vittles" for Sunday dinner. Lonestartimes.com
A majority of so called agnostics and atheists in Europe are cultural conservative Christians without even knowing it. Ben Stevens: Is Anders Breivik A European Fundamentalist?
One commenter pointed out there was no category for atheists or agnostics.
It's a long introduction designed to establish my credibility: that I have no reason to promote religion or, since I'm Jewish, the Christian religion in particular, when I say that the atheists who pushed the Nativity scenes from the park showed the very same stiff-necked intolerance that they accuse religions of. Frank Gruber: Akedism: For Those Who Don't Care If God Exists
David Berman has disputed this view, arguing that Collins is, in fact, an atheist.
With his pomaded porcupine haircut and a nasality superimposed on his powerful voice, Neeson makes Kinsey the ultimate village atheist, a person who believes that everything can be explained in natural, rational terms.
Christopher Hitchens, a polemical atheist, called her "Hell's Angel".
The only absolute with atheists and agnostics is the injection of religion into areas that should be free from religion. Think Progress » Nelson signals intent to join Republican filibuster of Obama labor board nominee. (Updated)
A failed school teacher who became Minister of Education; a one-time Methodist minister turned avowed atheist.
RICHARD DAWKINS, the atheist campaigner, is planning a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his state visit to Britain “for crimes against humanity”. Dawkins wants to arrest the Pope « Anglican Samizdat
So there you have it: the great high priest of Darwinian Dogma has spoken; all nonsense perhaps, but atheists, please genuflect. 2010 April « Anglican Samizdat
Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts. Dr T.P.Chia
You can see this brush of the infinite on the faces of anyone's who's mourning, even on the face of one who considers himself an agnostic, or an atheist.
It has been a failure of all us atheistical Darwinists intent on dragging the world, kicking and screaming, into the 1860s, and out of the clutches of the religion-be-deviled proudly ignorant dark-age-living creationists. David Horton: And then god said, "Let there ... oh, you already have life"
Anyway, that would be a problem for the atheist’s position in this case, since the theist is happy to stop at a single (or finite-numbered, just as good) universe, since the next step is God. A Fine-Tuned Multiverse
At that point I had yet to meet an atheist who wasn't narked by the whole thing - Chris Cooper had certainly not been impressed.
To summarize a long and heated debate, he sees himself as a "theist" -- a non-atheist -- but this doesn't translate as belief in God in the conventional sense. Wendi L. Adamek: The Nature Of Reality And The Long-Distance Relationship
When meeting a scientist who also believes in divinity, the defiantly atheist New York Times science writer Natalie Angier starts popping mental veins.
Or an ungodly witness is one that profanely and atheistically witnesses against religion and godliness, whose instructions seduce from the words of knowledge (v. 27); such a one scorns judgment, laughs at the terrors of the Lord, mocks at that fear, Job xv. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
As I remember your evidence for god was Fjords .. 1 - nill to the atheists. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
Atheists deny the existence of God.
He was a very vulnerable hard-swearing, full-blooded agnostic, or possibly an atheist.
The most die-hard atheist or skeptic may suddenly find God when faced with an extreme suffering or danger.
My atheist friend used the term incarnation to point to what he called the miracle of awareness. Kansas City Star: Front Page
Lutheran Church Historian Martin Marty argues that all too many pews are filled on Sunday with practical atheists—disguised nonbelievers who behave during the rest of the week as if God did not exist.
Religious belief is increasingly losing its attraction in the minds of the average people. The further decline of religion in the western world seems unavoidable. France is the most atheistic nation (32%), followed by Germany(20%), great Britain and the United States (13%). In 2010. Dr T.P.Chia
Atheism is not anti-God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
Atheism is not anti-God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
So, is selling shirts and pins that let atheists come out of the closet more publicly is a sign of being "closed-minded" or just a sign of "egomania"? About.com Agnosticism / Atheism
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. Eric Hoffer
I used to be an atheist but then I realized that "a-theist" is still god centered. I got tagged
Confucius said that we do not know life, how can we know death Analects XI:11 That Okada took this particular passage from the Confucian Analects as his response to my question about a radical atheist construction of the meaning of the world and humanity in the 20th century is a fascinating exegetical interpretation and adaptation to a contemporary concern. Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D.: West Meets East: Confucius And Bertrund Russell
Most people do not attend church, but they do not call themselves atheists or skeptics.
Atheists' arrogance is their Achilles' heel, as cringe-making radio performance has proved. Christopher Lane: Religious Self-Definition A Major Issue In Dawkins's Poor Debate Performance
This is the sense in which the atheist mathematician's cognitio, or clear awareness, is imperfect. Certainty
Russell is right, though, that 'irreligion' is a better label for Hume's position than 'atheism' it is also closer to what Hume's contemporaries meant when they called him an atheist than our own term 'atheist' is. posted by Brandon | 10:35 AM Hume and the Natural History of Religion
Since the belief that God became man is central to Christianity, such a remark must be aimed at the various attempts to either reduce or eliminate the mystery of God, often taken to the point where "God" is simply identified as man's projection: "Those who have no desires have no gods either," claimed Feuerbach, "Gods are mens wishes in corporeal form" (quoted by de Lubac in The Drama of Atheist Humanism). Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
It was a nontheistic, atheistic religion, a religion of man and society.
The discourse between evangelical Christians and atheists has been antipodal at best. Frank Fredericks: God, We Need Atheists
Of course, the scoundrels using “unguided” as a codeword for “atheistic” even “antitheistic” for political purposes are a different story. ACLU: America's intellectual terrorists? - The Panda's Thumb
Atheists tend to reject the distinction, and say belief should only be in the rational — arational is insufficient. The Volokh Conspiracy » Latest Mohammed Cartoon Controversy, this Time in South Africa
The reader will meet a veritable galaxy of rakes, atheistic clergy, philanthropic snobs, scholars, apothecaries and antiquarians in this elegant, witty, informative and, in true Horatian style, entertaining book.
Of course, he is one of the leading polemicists of the so-called "New Atheists" movement, but "polemicist" does not equate necessarily with "hate monger" or "intolerant thug. Articles » peoplesworld
One of the bedrocks of old-style Marxism was atheist internationalism, which is of course against all religions and all kinds of nationalism. The Volokh Conspiracy » Was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Born Jewish?
If someone shows me evidence that destroys my world view, or even shakes it sizeably, then I will stop being an atheist.
Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors? The Case for God by Karen Armstrong: Book summary
It can hardly be about early Egypt if Hypatia is a character, and I'm not sure she was an atheist either. First Look: Alejandro Amenábar's Agora Set « FirstShowing.net
If you agree with the conclusion you are as thin-backboned as Gaius Baltar and just as easily manipulated (this is coming NOT-from an atheist BTW). Battlestar Galactica: Watched The Finale? Still Got Questions? We’ve Got Answers!
Karen is now an atheist, formerly a Catholic, who posts her internal dialogues with her ‘altar ego’ Sister Mary Karen, who is appalled by Karen's newfound heathenism and her sinful ways.
Atheists do not believe in God.
So much, to say the truth, seems to be ad-milted, by all but professed Atheists. Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews."
The criticism that atheists are less moral and honest has been disproved by study after study. Atheists believe that morality is man-made, and follow their moral ideas which are more or less compatible with those of religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
Although Buddhism does not assert God as an individual being and is therefore sometimes characterized as atheistic, it is officially recognized because of its assertion of Adibuddha. Current Situation of Buddhism in the World
For many of us who have other religious, agnostic or atheist beliefs, access is denied. Times, Sunday Times
The discussion of soul-shrivelling tedium here – which is representative of just about any exchange with an atheist – started me thinking about the seeming incapacity of many atheists to go back to first principles and inspect their unstated assumptions. Atheist irrationality « Anglican Samizdat
Despising this latter sort of thing is not despising Mr. Wells, but only some cheap atheist in a billycock hat whom he had the bad luck to meet when he was a boy. G.K.'s Weekly - On Mr. Wells and Mr. Belloc
Typically, they go after someone who they can turn into what I call the "lone atheist troublemaker. Chris Rodda: The Camp Pendleton Cross: The Facts vs. What the "Persecuted" Christians Are Saying
Referencing the Stoics is not therefore, as far as the Elders of Sodom are concerned, a good foundation for an argument that one's views were born of atheistic rationalism rather than religious hokum. Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy
Atheists and secular people are more liberal and less prejudiced and dogmatic, whereas theists and religious people are more conservative and less rational and tolerant. Dr T.P.Chia
I might consider myself a spiritual person - if someone could offer me a coherent definition of the term - but I'm basically an atheist, and feel wholly detached from all this heated baloney.
Now you're asking us whether you should bring up a child with your atheist teachings and dogma?
The first-born son of strict Republican parents, one a nonpracticing Jew and the other an atheist who was raised Presbyterian, Tim gets top grades in the hardest classes.
There is Christianity, which, by revealing the truth, has limited the license of human reason; there is that human reason which resists revelation as a bondage -- which insists upon being atheistical, or polytheistical, or pantheistical -- which looks upon the requirements of obedience, justice, truth, and purity, as limitations of human freedom. Lothair
RICHARD DAWKINS, the atheist campaigner, is planning a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his state visit to Britain “for crimes against humanity”. here 2010 April - Telic Thoughts
Certainly I agree with you that my views are not at all necessarily atheistical. Behe
So, toward the end of the play, when Handke hurled insults at ‘us,’ we were more delighted by the word play (‘You bubbleheads, you atheists, you butchers, you deadbeats’) than hurt or shocked.
On top of all this was the constant need to defend his religion against a clever elder brother who was an atheist.
As it is, my thinking has been influenced by Catholics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Neo-pagans, Baha'i, agnostics and atheists.
He is now an atheist and skeptic - although I fear he'll fall back into faith someday, given how sad he seems to find the idea of no afterlife.
Someone observed that there is never any singing at the funeral of an atheist.
Atheists and secular people are more liberal and less prejudiced and dogmatic, whereas theists and religious people are more conservative and less rational and tolerant. Dr T.P.Chia
Ordinary skeptics may be atheists and be completely unaware of the arguments of theological skepticism.
Well-known atheist, Richard Dawkins, now styles himself as A Devil's Chaplain, the title of a recent book.
But in general, I think we do ourselves a disservice as skeptics if we try to maintain that the only ‘pure’ skeptic is an atheist skeptic.
But you're the most famous atheist in the country. Times, Sunday Times
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics seems more than a pejorative stab, but rather, an astute observation of the narrow atheist view of reality, their unwillingness to concede science and reason's limitations, and other means of epistemology other than material empiricism. Two or three . net
In order to cheat the atheists, I describe the Supreme Personality of Godhead to be without form and without qualities.
The fascist diatribal trick is very simple: psychologically you produce an arch-enemy, atheists, communists or terrorists. Really ... the ignorance of a war dog is bliss ... it's folly to be a wise cat
Religious belief is increasingly losing its attraction in the minds of the average people. The further decline of religion in the western world seems unavoidable. France is the most atheistic nation (32%), followed by Germany(20%), great Britain and the United States (13%). In 2010. Dr T.P.Chia
On the one hand, I really, honestly, do see, hear, and experience everything that atheists adduce as evidence that God is an illusion. Eliot Daley: My Memo To Atheists: Why I Choose God
Then again, what Atheist calls the "tediousness" of the journey has undoubtedly a great hand in making some half-in-earnest men sceptics, if not scoffers. Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)
As I grew up with an atheistic education, the idea of a fairy tale god never dawned on me.
Why atheists need hospital chaplains too thetimes. Times, Sunday Times
The only absolute with atheists and agnostics is the injection of religion into areas that should be free from religion yes .. and that’s just as extreme – has just as much lack of ‘moderation’ as those on the opposing side .. Think Progress » Nelson signals intent to join Republican filibuster of Obama labor board nominee. (Updated)
Dennett has accused me of being a "faith fibber," a term applied to religious critics of the New Atheists who, in their enthusiasm to vilify non-believers, distort the truth. Karl Giberson, Ph.D: Faith Fibbing for Jesus
How sure of God's non-existence must we be to call ourselves atheists?
Atheists are more knowledgeable about religion than religious believers, even though they are opposed to God based religion and many of them were previously religious. Dr T.P.Chia
Atheists are people who think for themselves and defenders of reason, and their conviction that God does not exist is making a significant contribution to the development of thinking, rational and open- minded people. Dr T.P.Chia
To conciliate the Church, Descartes tried to give the impression that the Meditations was another defence (albeit a novel and irrefutable one) of the truths of religion against atheists.
But you're the most famous atheist in the country. Times, Sunday Times
Everywhere there was a strong reaction against what was called the atheistical and anarchical philosophy of the eighteenth century. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3
I should clarify as well; when I use the term secular, I do not mean to imply that Crossan is an atheist or some variant. Jesus and History around the Web
His first two solo shows were a blizzard of styles, combining watercolours and charcoals, landscapes and portraits, and religious paintings crafted lovingly by a committed atheist.
Exploring the details of Farmer's life, however, reveals that she is, in a sense, not only the Lost Atheist, but also a feminist, a heretic, a social radical.
And to top it all off, they're so incompetant at keeping out the "riffraff" that they let the most famous atheist in the world in! Creationism and Censorship
The introduction to his book contains a strong denial that he is an atheist, revolutionary or opponent of sovereign rulers.
They finally realized the craziness of the idea that you have to be either atheist or agnostic to be open-minded. Christianity Today
The mode of experience I employ here is no different than that of an atheist scholar.
Today, many Creoles are nonpracticing Catholics with some agnostics, some atheists, and a very few professing a non-Catholic faith.
Or that one in three adults is either atheist or agnostic. The Sun
Has an atheist who practices religion in Borneo overcome the beliefs he was indoctrinated with?
Ethan Allen was a freethinker, as atheists were known as back then.
Where is now the enthusiastic Gironde, where the volcanic mountain, the fiery, and eloquent Mirabeau, the wily Brissot, the atheistic Lequinios, the remorseless Marat, the bloody St. Just, and the chief of the deplumed and fallen legions of equality? The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.
Although there are atheist right-to-lifers, the militant leadership, organization and financial sponsorship of the antiabortion and ‘pro-family’ movements are religious.
Le Corbusier, a staunch atheist, at first had refused to accept the commission to rebuild the chapel.
To these professed atheists, we may well add that impious and carnal crew of worldly-minded men, impenitent sinners, that go to hell in a lethargy, or in a dream; who though they be professed Anatomy of Melancholy
Pejorative directed against collective production by a group applying harsher criticism against one group, such as churchgoers, than against another group, such as atheists Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Atheists are more knowledgeable about religion than religious believers, even though they are opposed to God based religion and many of them were previously religious. Dr T.P.Chia
The government says atheists and humanists will also be protected under new discrimination legislation.
Officially atheist China is growing at a cracking pace.
Atheism is rooted in science and reason, and atheists distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. (85% of the members of America's national academy of science reject God.). Dr T.P.Chia
Although they professed to be atheists, the ferrymen muttered among themselves about the wrath of Maera, the River Goddess. TREASON KEEP
It occurs to me that I've been more 'evangelized' by the evangelical type of atheist than by any evangelical Christian or Muslim. Beware of the man with a cause, a guitar, and a belief in his own way with words.
People even disagree on whether the burden of proof here lies with the atheists or the believers.
Religious belief is increasingly losing its attraction in the minds of the average people. The further decline of religion in the western world seems unavoidable. France is the most atheistic nation (32%), followed by Germany(20%), great Britain and the United States (13%). In 2010. Dr T.P.Chia
The people take their religion from their minister "by scraps and mammocks, as he dispenses it in his Sunday's dole"; and "the superstitious man by his good will is an atheist, but being scared from thence by the pangs and gripes of a boiling conscience, all in a pudder shuffles up to himself such a God and such a worship as is most agreeable to remedy his fear. Milton
Perhaps Stalin et al. were also atheists, but a shared disbelieve is not quite the same thing as a shared (positive) believe. Darwin Strips Reality of Purpose?
Much like the atheist movement, the interfaith movement seeks to build inter-group understanding, encourage critical thinking, and end religiously-based sociological and political exclusivism. Chris Stedman: Do Atheists Belong In The Interfaith Movement?
One does not have to be an atheist to be a rationalist, empiricist or skeptic.
Before 1750, this latter current played the chief role in diffusing materialist, atheistic and antiscriptural ideas. The Times Literary Supplement
If Limbaugh is a Christian than those of us who actually care what Jesus said may really be Saints and that incudes atheists. Think Progress » Limbaugh: Volcanic eruption in Iceland is God’s reaction to health care’s passage.
The burden that is laid upon a humanist or an atheist or someone who is not bound by any ideology or creed is that you believe in nothing but you believe in anything.
Since I've taken my place as a freethinker and an atheist, I'm happier in life now than ever before.
A while back I criticised dogmatism among atheists as well as an excess of certainty in belief.
The very word "islam" comes from a word cognate to shalom, which means peace in Hebrew [and which sounds less threatening to agnostics and atheists than the Arabic-to-English translation]. Rob Kirkpatrick: Feisal Abdul Rauf's New York Times Op-Ed [With Annotations From an Agnostic]
It is the cause of hundreds of millions of Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Jains, Budhists, Parsees, agnostics and atheists as well.
I could understand such a view in a religious believer - as religious believers believe in lots of mysterious, mystical and unobservable stuff - but Keith is an atheist!
Some atheist groups also oppose the measure.
Religious belief is increasingly losing its attraction in the minds of the average people. The further decline of religion in the western world seems unavoidable. France is the most atheistic nation (32%), followed by Germany(20%), great Britain and the United States (13%). In 2010. Dr T.P.Chia
It’s past time for sane Believers to join agnostics and atheists in using the same weapon against those who hide behind their avowed Faith. Think Progress » ‘Climate Crime Scene’ declared at Smithsonian’s David H. Koch Hall Of Human Origins.
How can Christians and atheists ever come to understand each other when their frames of reference are so different?
Now, four years into Benedicts's pontificate and nearly 100 days into Kirill's patriarchate, nearly all Vatican observers agree that, as Pope John Paul II was driven by the desire to end the scourge of atheist Communism, so Pope Benedict XVI still hopes passionately to see the restoration of a unified Church. Ecumenism
The atheistic tradition goes back a long way.
And I thought that free thinking involved examining the claims for differing world views, whether religious or atheistical, evaluating those views and reaching a conclusion which is not determined in advance by prejudice. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Both studied mankind, but while Teilhard sought to situate mankind within the broad sweep of cosmogenesis - the evolution of the cosmos from its initiation - and from a religious perspective, Hartmann studied mankind at much closer quarters and from an atheistic perspective. Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann
HH should get extra browny points for having a ‘hero’ an atheist who tries not to kill anybody. .even putting himself at risk (in the later books) in order not to kill other people. eamonn says: KAMN Show #42: The Stainless Steel Rat : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas
An atheist who insisted on a secular funeral, he was not interested in joining sects, groups or political parties of any kind. The Times Literary Supplement
And what if the parents are muslim, wicken, or atheists - is FotF going to treat them equally in their little programs? Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
He was also an ardent heretic and freethinker, maybe an out-and-out atheist, and a vocal defender of the ideas of Charles Darwin.
Atheists do not accept metaphors and super naturalism as facts, but theists see metaphors and super naturalism as facts. Dr T.P.Chia
His prominence, it is impossible to say, has not suffered by his branding along with the other so called 'new atheists,' but to merely affix that sticker to Christopher's forehead is to skip the story, read the executive summary, and then to miscomprehend the shortening; surely Hitchens is an anti-theist, but that is merely a theme in his life, not its aggregate. Alex Wilhelm: In Praise of Christopher Hitchens: A Paean for a Life Well Lived
Wilson provides vignettes of almost 40 skeptics or atheists, most of whom were unable to exorcise religion completely from their minds and psyches.
Nor was he an atheist intent on overthrowing the Catholic Church: his final efforts to get a Christian burial led to a bizarre funeral.
If you're starting to itch, just understand that I'm an atheist who doesn't believe in hocus-pocus. SeeLight:
We are, in part, natural beings, but we alone among the animals are in some ways alienated from the natural world in which we live. Fundamentalist creationism and rigidly atheistic evolutionism are both pretty implausible.
Behind these lay another debate between equally traditional views of collectivism v. individual initiative and between atheistic materialism and the belief that the world was created by God.
The world has been secularizing at the expense of organized religion. The increase of secular people, including atheists, agnostics and freethinkers, represents a great challenge to the God-based religion. Dr T.P.Chia
Putin, ex-KGB head, now leader of an atheistic evil empire, probably talks to himself in Russian,and Biden was roughly translating, using a euphemism suiting for the wsj. The Volokh Conspiracy » Jesus Christ!
Being an atheist, I feel vegetarianism is the closest I get to a religion.
The criticism that atheists are less moral and honest has been disproved by study after study. Atheists believe that morality is man-made, and follow their moral ideas which are more or less compatible with those of religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
In a WIRED magazine article he describes himself as an "unbudgeable atheist".
I must bid "adieu" although I am an atheist, go figure! to you, mon ami. The Opinuary Column
As an atheist, he believes that religion is just an emotional crutch for the insecure.
Atheists probably wouldn't be fussed and might find the whole thing amusing.
I am an atheist in life and I won't choose to have my memory blemished by anyone taking the freedom to meddle with my choices in life, neither with my memory afterlife.
The life, therefore, and spirit of all our actions is the resurrection, and a stable apprehension that our ashes shall enjoy the fruit of our pious endeavours; without this, all religion is a fallacy, and those impieties of Lucian, Euripides, and Julian, are no blasphemies, but subtile verities; and atheists have been the only philosophers. Religio Medici
For many of us who have other religious, agnostic or atheist beliefs, access is denied. Times, Sunday Times
Or that one in three adults is either atheist or agnostic. The Sun
She fears that he has lost his faith to trendy, atheistic ideas.
March 22, 2008 at 8:32 pm kafleen, f u wood liek 2 tawk about it wif a man hooz bin a atheist 4 moar tanh 40 yeerss, rite mii! Universe - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Atheists are people who think for themselves and defenders of reason, and their conviction that God does not exist is making a significant contribution to the development of thinking, rational and open- minded people. Dr T.P.Chia
Casebolt offered 20 labels, including pagan, atheist and agnostic in his Midwestern survey.
Voltaire's answer was a classic statement of the atheist position.
True, he was a confirmed atheist, who had no patience for divinity, prayers or rituals.
But he would not have liked the grown-up woman I've become: a feminist, an atheist, a poet, of all things. I suspect we would not be on speaking terms had he lived.
Some of us are believers, others are agnostics or atheists.
But by the time the reader's blood was up, he would come across some virile atheist's proclamation of the feeble, mattoid character of the religion in question, as illustrated by its quietist saints, the Quakers, the Tolstoyans, and non-resisters in general. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study
In Mark's grandfather's apartment building, filled as it is with old Jewish residents, a minyan is not easy to come by: too many people are sick or atheists.
You can't expurge mental prejudice from judicial opinions any more than you can from the reasonings of theologians and atheists .... The American Judiciary
How many professed atheists are there in Congress?
There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
But why did they become humanists, or even atheists, which requires a degree of antireligious commitment? The Times Literary Supplement
He is now an atheist and skeptic - although I fear he'll fall back into faith someday, given how sad he seems to find the idea of no afterlife.
Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts. Dr T.P.Chia
If someone shows me evidence that destroys my world view, or even shakes it sizeably, then I will stop being an atheist.

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