How To Use Theist In A Sentence
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We may earnestly believe that they're wrong - whether they're non-Christians, heretics, apostates, agnostics, atheists, or what have you.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. C.S. Lewis
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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
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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
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The WSJ recently had an article about an antitheist ‘preacher’ as it were, who was giving anti-religious sermons to large crowds in France.
Matthew Yglesias » The New Atheism

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But, James, isn't the title indicative of "right" interpretation according to monotheistic understanding in opposition to Trinitarian understanding? and human moral development?
Gratitude Mingled with Theological Concern
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Holiness answers audience questions addressing the situation of Tibet, goal of bodhicitta, nature of enlightened mind, future of the Dalai Lama institution, compatibility of Buddhist practices with theistic faith, universal purpose of human life, practice of patience towards harm-doers, subtle energy and mind, and the Heart Sutra mantra.
Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary
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It is a dazzling display of luminous atoms, a kind of pantheistic evocation.
The French Impressionists (1860-1900)
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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
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It depends whether their religion is totemistic, pantheistic or monotheistic, surely.
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Yeah, this kind of unquestioning arrogance is why I'm an atheist.
Report: Obama Meets Unconditionally With George Will, Bill Kristol, David Brooks
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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
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That's true, but we have our regulation number of atheists and agnostics as well.
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Such a proposal is distinct from pantheistic notions which equate God with the natural world, because D'Espagnat relegates the natural world - the world of space, time and matter - to what Kant referred to as the 'phenomenal' world, the world produced by the modus operandi of our minds upon the noumenal world.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Article 18 protects theistic, non-theistic and atheistic beliefs, as well as the right not to profess any religion or belief.
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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
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That would be the option of theistic evolution, which to me is not a logical choice because it requires elements of faith that simply don't comport with science and logic.
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While Buddhism is deemed nontheistic, the Vedas are regarded as polytheistic, and the Bible is monotheistic, we have seen that the cosmogonies of Vajrayana Buddhism, Vedanta, and Neoplatonic Christianity have so much in common that they could almost be regarded as varying interpretations of a single theory.
C for Confusion!
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I think the label 'antitheist' is a swell idea, and count me in.
Armed and Dangerous
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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.
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There are some other branches of Norse paganism though where there is more study and includes an autotheist element the Odhianism of the Rune Gild is a good example.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Considering a Candidate’s Religion:
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The Bible teaches that mankind was originally monotheistic.
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The key to prevent such phenomena is to dissolve these exclusive or hostile theist elements in religions and to base their doctrines on a universal humanist idea.
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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
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To you, I'm an atheist. To God, I'm the loyal opposition. Woody Allen
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The court's reasoning was that the posting of the commandments in the Kentucky courthouses constituted an expression of monotheistic religion but not so in Texas, where the commandments were seen as having more of a secular "educational" purpose.
Commandments removed from Va. school system
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Lest any misunderstanding should remain - and it is likely that I have sometimes used incautious language in presenting the theistic case - I must stress the following points.
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Some were preoccupied with God, others were atheistic to the core.
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This makes Hinduism unique in the sense that it is a monotheistic religion with a pantheon of manifested forms of God.
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Yet as an atheist and Marxist can we expect that she would understand or appreciate Hindu devotional or yogic practices?
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These sculptural elements, which have polytheistic titles like "Purging Cyclops Being" and "Oval Tree Double Owls Oceania," are a little too friendly and puppetlike to stir the psyche.
NYT > Home Page
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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
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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
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As far as I know, none but the votaries of monotheistic, that is to say, Jewish religions, look upon suicide as a crime.
Studies in Pessimism
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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
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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
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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.
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Well, let me tell you, I have been in very genteel society, without feeling any thing so human, so catholic, so pantheistical, (in the right sense,) as I did in making one of that queer company.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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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.
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As far as I can see, it is only the followers of monotheistic, that is of Jewish, religions that regard suicide as a crime.
Essays of Schopenhauer
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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
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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.
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Many a theist would grant that creaturely causes lack necessary efficaciousness on the very grounds that Malebranche had presented, but still argue that this does not mean that they lack causal powers.
Occasionalism
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The panentheistic God of the orthodox and/or the open theists?
Alice In Wonderland official trailer
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Finally, does anyone else note that Catholicism is a polytheist religion?
Harlan Ellison on God
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As I've said before (I think, but I'm too lazy to check), I'd prefer "nontheistic" to
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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In religion, he started as an ardent Catholic and then became a tub-thumping atheist.
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Most leaders of evolutionary thought were strongly atheistic.
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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
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Thus it only remains to treat in general of the question as to the reconcilableness of the idea of the origin of species through evolution, through gradual development, _in general_ with a theistic view of the world.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
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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?
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One commenter pointed out there was no category for atheists or agnostics.
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To the non-theistic scientist, the objective universe is what it is, and the question of how it got that way is just one more thing to investigate.
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But as Johnson himself notes, many people think that they can be methodological naturalists and theists.
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Perhaps you would prefer to label it 'panentheistic'.
Pantheism
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Hindus are truly monotheist but worship many gods and goddesses and see the same God in them.
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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
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David Berman has disputed this view, arguing that Collins is, in fact, an atheist.
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It is an open question, however, when such declarations are to be taken as identity assertions, with pantheistic or acosmic intentions, and when they are perhaps hyperbolic variations on descriptions of union-type experiences.
Mysticism
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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.
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Christopher Hitchens, a polemical atheist, called her "Hell's Angel".
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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)
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But one conclusion from that observation is that the theists themselves have no idea what they believe in.
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Another alternative that I find very attractive is some strain of the vitalist/idealist/panpsychist/panentheistic worldview.
Another Chink in a Worldview's Armor?
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A failed school teacher who became Minister of Education; a one-time Methodist minister turned avowed atheist.
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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
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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
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Some of the many positions on creationism include progressive, deistic, theistic, ex nihilo, and directive creationism.
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Psalm 82: 8, the most 'polytheistic' of passages in the Hebrew Bible, the idea of a real kinship of nature between 'the Most High' and his 'sons', the gods, is already contradicted by the former's judgment that the latter 'will die like humans' (Ps. 82: 7).
Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
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Within Paganism, I think that there's a misconception that being pantheistic equals the absence of wrong.
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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
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But one conclusion from that observation is that the theists themselves have no idea what they believe in.
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Gradually, the people began to adopt polytheistic ideas, and worship spirits and many different gods.
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The monotheistic order required that the feminine should be barred from the sphere of power, which coincided with the sacred.
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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.
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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"
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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
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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.
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Aside from my weak lapse into theistic belief (which I confess is irrational and illogical), what have I written so far that would you disagree with, and why?
Contentment
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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
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Our masses are ignorant of their religion and easily indulge in customs borrowed from polytheists.
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There are non-theistic explanations for the origins of individual rights.
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When meeting a scientist who also believes in divinity, the defiantly atheist New York Times science writer Natalie Angier starts popping mental veins.
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However, the acceptance of ditheism does not fit in with the monotheistic concept of God and the Devil.
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Islam is a monotheistic Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, a seventh century Arab religious and political figure.
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You, for instance, have a tendency to capitalize 'Life,' as if in some kind of panentheistic sense of i+d.
And Now For The Rest of the Story
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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)
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The three monotheistic religions are from that area.
Houston Chronicle
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As I remember your evidence for god was Fjords .. 1 - nill to the atheists.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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Atheists deny the existence of God.
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There are theists in all of these categories (don't know about transcendental idealism or logical positivists), so they all allow for divine intervention of a kind.
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He was a very vulnerable hard-swearing, full-blooded agnostic, or possibly an atheist.
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The most die-hard atheist or skeptic may suddenly find God when faced with an extreme suffering or danger.
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My atheist friend used the term incarnation to point to what he called the miracle of awareness.
Kansas City Star: Front Page
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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.
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Your morality, as you have confessed, is no better than a deluded theist's, so I can't do that.
Contentment
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Islam by contrast did present such an immediate monotheistic God who superintended all human endeavors.
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And as far as Avatar: saw it in 3-D, was wowed by the special effects, thought the movie itself story, acting, directing, etc. was pretty average, wasn’t too bothered by the so-called pantheistic elements in it – it was just science fiction to me.
My Kindle Got Run Over by a Car at Ray Fowler .org
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They were also troubled by what many saw as the antisupernaturalistic and antitheistic bent of science: could one really believe in the New Testament world of spirits and miracles in the era of the steam engine and ocean liner?
Warranted Christian Belief
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Crushed into self, and his own conscience and _schema mundi_, he loses the opportunity of correcting his impression of the voice of God within, by the testimony of the voice of God without; and so he begins to mistake more and more the voice of that very flesh of his, which he fancies he has conquered, for the voice of God, and to become, without knowing it, an autotheist.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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In judeo - christianity and most monotheistic religions, objects can represent a view of the cosmos.
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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
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We present this as a specimen of our most recent antitheistic logic.
Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.
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But they have common antecedents in Greek and Roman civilisation and monotheistic Christianity.
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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
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And Dembski 1998b, p 20 rejects theistic evolutionism, which is the thesis that God used the evolutionary process to produce organisms and their adaptive features.
Sobering thoughts on ID - The Panda's Thumb
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On closer inspection, the Sixth Meditation passage does not put forward a naturalistic solution, but a theistic solution.
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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
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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
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I rail at the theistic credulity of Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry.
Epistle Dedicatory
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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
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Nontheistic religions such as secular humanism, atheism, agnosticism and scientism are quite happy with science that seeks to remove any "supernatural" influence from its explanations.
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Williams also criticized the Governor for sitting cross-legged with a "dot on his forehead," and described the ceremony as "polytheistic.
Mike Ghouse: Senator Williams' Remarks Offended Hindus
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I used to be an atheist but then I realized that "a-theist" is still god centered.
I got tagged
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Maybe they are a bit schizoid but on all their comment/editorial/intellectual shows they continue to push an antimonarchist anti-theist anticapitalist agenda.
SHOULD THE MONARCHY END?
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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
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Most people do not attend church, but they do not call themselves atheists or skeptics.
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The great museums of the world bear witness to the extensive impact of monotheistic spirituality upon human civilization.
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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
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This is the sense in which the atheist mathematician's cognitio, or clear awareness, is imperfect.
Certainty
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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
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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:
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Definitely worth watching, whether to enjoy the rich visuals of Hellenic Egypt, to savor the ever-wonderful storytelling of Alejandro Amenábar, to bask in the feminism of the world’s first-known female mathematician and astronomer and philosopher, to stick it to the Christian man by enjoying a world where pagans held power and Christians were the rioting mob, or to revel in the antitheistic message of a time when violence ruled all religions—just like today.
Agora | Mind on Fire
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It was a nontheistic, atheistic religion, a religion of man and society.
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The discourse between evangelical Christians and atheists has been antipodal at best.
Frank Fredericks: God, We Need Atheists
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(In its message, the group referred to Sistani as a "polytheist," the extremist Sunni slur about Shiites.)
LISTEN TO THE AYATOLLAH
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Buddhism is a non-theistic religion that claims that suffering is unavoidable, and that the root of suffering is attachment, greed and desire.
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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
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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
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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.
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Butler, Newman and Blougram might be considered agnostics according to Ayer's definition, or they might be considered theists.
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As I see it, opposition to theocracy and advocacy of a non-theistic worldview are two separate goals.
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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
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The Kalash are polytheists, with a pantheon of deities and demi-gods that has been compared to that of ancient Greece, though it is much closer to Indo-Iranian (Vedic and pre-Zoroastrian) traditions.
The Kalash Tribe Of Pakistan (PHOTOS)
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And as I pointed out, your position effectively drains the terms "theistic evolutionist" and "creationist" of all meaning, such that every theist is both a "theistic evolutionist" and a "creationist" at the same time.
Behe and Theistic Evolution
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Japanese pattern, and while the ivy that covered the Gothic ceiling trailed long tendrils of the palest and most delicate green, each leaf glossed as if it had been varnished, this unheroic-hero, this pantheistic-devotee, this heathenized-Christian, this half-happy-go-lucky æthestic Bohemian, lay upon his pillow, the incarnation of absolute repose.
In the Footprints of the Padres
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Similar to ditheism, moral dualism does not in any way imply that the religion in question is not monist or monotheistic.
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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?
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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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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
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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
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In the Mutazalite tradition of Islam there was also a tendency to slide towards emanationism and pantheism, as a result of endorsing the pantheistic necessitarianism of Aristotle.
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Environmental factors also applied, and humans were not naturally monotheistic.
Times, Sunday Times
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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!
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The names of nearly 2.5 million of the fallen are inscribed here, all of whom are considered to be divine spirits worshiped under Japan's pantheistic Shinto religion.
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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.
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Atheists do not believe in God.
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Any sort of naturalism was decried as an attack on theistic belief.
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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."
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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
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(Granted, there are many other strands in the tapestry of religion, and granted, I've entirely overlooked the polytheistic and nontheistic religions, such as Hinduism and some forms of Buddhism, but in that short list above, we encompass more than half the world's population, and well over half its believers.)
Clay Farris Naff: Can Evolution Tell Us What God Wants?
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The argument is nonetheless a weak reed on which to rest the theistic thesis.
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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
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For many of us who have other religious, agnostic or atheist beliefs, access is denied.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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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
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In some theistic monism thought the principal of kenosis is in play where God is self-limiting with respect to life.
Courting the Theists
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Because Wiccans seem to worship nature and nature goddesses and gods, they can be called pantheists.
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This kind of non-critical acceptance of a belief system is especially a feature of the three monotheistic religions.
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That may be true, but something in it smacks of theistic necessitarianism not mention anthropological historical determinism.
The essential "I"
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In doing so Dawkins begs some very pertinent questions showing that he, like his theistic counterparts, is unable to present a comprehensive and coherent account running from A to Z.
2009 May - Telic Thoughts
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If these cosmogonies are indeed based upon valid introspective knowledge, then there may some plausibility to the claims of many contemplatives throughout the world that introspective inquiry can lead to knowledge, not only of the ultimate ground of being, but of the fundamental laws of nature as well. -- via Is Buddhism Really Nontheistic? by B.
Archive 2007-09-01
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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
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This situation applies to much of Europe, in particular in Central and Northern Europe, where no more than half of the residents in those lands profess belief in a transcendent, personal and monotheistically-conceived deity.
"Postchristianity" and the Future of Unitarian Universalism in North America
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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
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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.
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A.H. Armstrong says the term "pantheistic" is a "large, vague term of theological abuse," (Armstrong 1976: 187).
Pantheism
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Thus, from the Assyrian researches as well as from other sources, it has come to be acknowledged by the most eminent scholars at the leading seats of Christian learning that the accounts of creation with which for nearly two thousand years all scientific discoveries have had to be "reconciled" -- the accounts which blocked the way of Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and Laplace -- were simply transcribed or evolved from a mass of myths and legends largely derived by the Hebrews from their ancient relations with Chaldea, rewrought in a monotheistic sense, imperfectly welded together, and then thrown into poetic forms in the sacred books which we have inherited.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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Now you're asking us whether you should bring up a child with your atheist teachings and dogma?
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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.
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But theists are not usually willing to say, in all contexts, that all the evil that occurs is a minute and necessary dose.
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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
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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
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Certainly I agree with you that my views are not at all necessarily atheistical.
Behe
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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.
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The research in this theist is all based on device physical, is reliable, which can be made important reference to new ESD protection devices design.
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On top of all this was the constant need to defend his religion against a clever elder brother who was an atheist.
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It has been taken up by other monotheistic religions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Expect a whole new language for this kind of thing including their own label 'nontheistic'.
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As it is, my thinking has been influenced by Catholics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Neo-pagans, Baha'i, agnostics and atheists.
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The shortcomings of a monotheistic religion become evident at such times of national crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Someone observed that there is never any singing at the funeral of an atheist.
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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
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Ordinary skeptics may be atheists and be completely unaware of the arguments of theological skepticism.
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Well-known atheist, Richard Dawkins, now styles himself as A Devil's Chaplain, the title of a recent book.
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You know all those deities -- the gods and goddesses that cause outsiders to think Hinduism is polytheistic?
Philip Goldberg: Colbert: Try Hinduism For Lent
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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.
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For Newton there had once been a true uncorrupted monotheistic religion, in which the frame of the world had been studied, as he believed it should, as the true temple of a living God.
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But you're the most famous atheist in the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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In order to cheat the atheists, I describe the Supreme Personality of Godhead to be without form and without qualities.
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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Islam is a monotheistic Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, a seventh century Arab religious and political figure.
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As I grew up with an atheistic education, the idea of a fairy tale god never dawned on me.
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Why atheists need hospital chaplains too thetimes.
Times, Sunday Times