I was an atheist then and I am an atheist now.
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" The guard promptly says, "Yes, yes, but are you a Sunni Atheist or a Shi'a Atheist.
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Some days I don't believe in anything — some days I'm probably more atheist than your atheist friend.
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Krauss is an ally of Harris's in the sense of being not just an atheist, but a "new" atheist.
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As far as I'm concerned, that proves he's not an atheist, because every atheist I've met knows the Bible really well.
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Signs and slogans bearing atheist slogans -- "I think therefore I'm Atheist" -- proliferated on the National Mall as musical guests and promotional videos played on stage.
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While the amount of anti-atheist sentiment varied between countries, folks were always more likely to say the man was an atheist teacher than they were to say he was religious.
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Gallup: Record number of Americans would vote for an atheist president There is a "small vocal group of people in this country who have really demonized what atheist means," Decker said.
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Geirodd: I'm an atheist, but I'm fine with paganism too.
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In this world, an atheist at Sunday service is revolutionary.
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Which is all well and good, unless you're an atheist.
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But a deist is really just an atheist before Darwin.
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But that is not necessarily the same as being atheist.
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I mean, there's a chapter there that every atheist hates.
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Judge John Hodgman Sarah writes: My husband is an atheist.
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"I am not an atheist," the Vermont senator said Sunday.
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Luckily, he also managed to reach a Kenyan atheist group.
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Some Jewish or atheist spouses had never really felt comfortable.
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Once an atheist, he now drops in on church services.
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We don't have anything like that on the atheist side.
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" And this: "An atheist believes that God does not exist.
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That doesn't quite fit the image of a diehard atheist.
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Rather, I'm a secular New York Jew with atheist tendencies.
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While he has Hindu heritage, Nithiyendran is a confident atheist.
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An atheist state was financing the rescue of religious buildings.
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An atheist is someone who knows there is no God.
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I used to want America to be more atheist libertarian.
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We were talking about the fact that I'm an atheist.
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As an atheist, she always struggled to define her higher power.
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To find an atheist in a church is not so strange.
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Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jew, or atheist; in France, India, Argentina, everywhere.
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Azad's father, Humayun Azad, was a prominent atheist writer and poet.
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"atheist churches"; he's a bit like a priest without a deity.
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In addition to being an atheist, O'Hair was an outspoken feminist.
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"Report: Texas church shooter was atheist, thought Christians 'stupid,'" said Breitbart.
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I was 19 when I solidified my beliefs as an atheist.
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He's an atheist like a lot of the scientists I interview.
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I grew up among atheist Soviet Jews; she among evangelical Christians.
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To the typical atheist, all this looks irrational, and therefore unacceptable.
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An atheist until the Navy, he found God in a submarine.
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What proportion of Democrats are union members, African Americans, LGBT, atheist?
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As Communist Party members, China's leaders are required to be atheist.
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It's because I'm not quite an atheist, and it worries me.
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Abraham Lincoln, when he was young, was an atheist or agnostic.
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No. Come out of the closet and say you're an atheist.
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Some have argued that the mere fact of being an atheist does not obligate one to denounce Spencer, because atheism is not a belief system and Spencer is not a figure within the atheist movement, so his position in relation to the average atheist is different from the position of an average Christian in relation to a bigoted Christian leader.
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The first atheist and agnostic AA groups in Canada—Beyond Belief and We Agnostics, both of which are located in Toronto—were also the first agnostic and atheist groups to be booted out of an AA Intergroup.
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Although of course individual atheists do plenty to help others, we usually don't think about atheist groups or communities coming together to provide services for those in need, at least not in a self-consciously atheist way.
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I'm an atheist, so I struggle with the text's more spiritual aspects.
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He's a proud atheist, and we talk about this all the time.
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The point is I've spent 15 plus years being a professional atheist.
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But can these "atheist churches" be described as a form of religion?
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The atheist Soviet Union did not recognise Christmas as a public holiday.
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Atheist writer Christopher Hitchens made a documentary about her called "Hell's Angel".
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What form such an atheist religion should take, though, God only knows.
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The revolutionary atheist has become another god in the Chinese folk pantheon.
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What's it mean to be an African American atheist comedian in practice?
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"I will become a Mormon, how about that?" the avowed atheist said.
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"Texas church shooter was a militant atheist," said The New York Post.
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Schopenhauer, whom Gray exalts above Hegel and Nietzsche, was a "mystical" atheist.
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I was pleased to find out Satanism was also an atheist philosophy.
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Neither the teenager nor her mother is an atheist, Mr. Kallinen said.
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"It's not people saying, 'I'm an atheist, I hate religion,'" Fosse says.
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As a teenager, he abandoned his faith in God, becoming an atheist.
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Some 41% were Christian or Jewish, while 33% were atheist or agnostic.
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THE ATHEIST MUSLIMA Journey From Religion to ReasonBy Ali A. Rizvi247 pp.
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That's why atheist humanism—the basis of any "pluralist society"—is doomed.
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It protects atheist musicians from being forced to perform at Easter services.
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"I rise in opposition to this atheist statue, all right?" she said.
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There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist.
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I'm an atheist and I don't buy into the substance of religious beliefs.
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An atheist myself, I stopped going to church at the age of 13.
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They're using checkbook diplomacy to buy influence and spread their undemocratic, atheist ideology.
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But China's aggressively atheist regime cannot abide organisations that it does not control.
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Raised vehemently atheist, I didn't believe in God, but I believed in surveillance.
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" They identified as atheist, agnostic, or unaffiliated, and answered with a simple "no.
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Did he deplore the fact that Oxford had incubated the "new atheist" movement?
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The truth is I never even use the word "atheist" in the book.
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Being a virgin is to sex what being an atheist is to religion.
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In Bangladesh, atheist writers have been hacked to death by machete-wielding vigilantes.
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Freedom means religious freedom, whether you are Christian or Jew, Muslim or atheist.
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And the silence of atheist organizations and public figures doesn't come from ignorance.
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As a strident atheist, I have no objection to that being the case.
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This conundrum has far more nefarious implications than merely agitating an atheist millennial.
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Being an atheist has freed me from stultifying beliefs and from evangelizing others.
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"I'm a devout atheist," said the retailer and society fixture Lauren Santo Domingo.
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Swedes are very atheist, and only 2 percent go to Mass on Sunday.
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Charles's wife, Lily, is an avowed atheist, while James's wife, Nan, is devout.
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Sanders is Jewish, but a DNC official questioned whether he was an atheist.
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How does secular (and atheist) interference in that decision not break that line?
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From my point of view as an atheist, it's a cartoon about religion.
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After a Lutheran upbringing, I became an atheist at the onset of puberty.
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I want a copy of [seminal atheist text] The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins?
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We believe in the power of all people: Black, Brown, Queer, Trans, Atheist, & Immigrant.
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The atheist exile's defiance is echoed by the Muslim cleric in the Bangladeshi capital.
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Having grown up in a semi-devout Catholic family, Alan's now a committed atheist.
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The deal comes with controversy as China's current regime is largely atheist and authoritarian.
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Kalkaska for Peace held an interfaith roundtable and took heat for including an atheist.
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That's as true whether you're an atheist, like Elizabeth, or a Christian, like Tim.
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So too does his recent announcement that he no longer considers himself an atheist.
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It happened in socialist, atheist France during the French Revolution in the late 1700s.
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Every person — Jewish, Christian, Muslim and atheist — has an equal spark of the divine.
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"Atheist group seeks to deny poor children Christmas gifts," says the Alliance Defending Freedom.
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GS: Although I'm now an atheist, I still have some of the Catholic furniture.
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I was a liberal and an atheist, and she was an extremely conservative Baptist.
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THE FOUR HORSEMEN: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution, foreword by Stephen Fry.
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Her comments came after religious extremists targeted gay activists, atheist bloggers and religious minorities.
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SOCIAL Q'S An atheist wonders whether she should talk to her granddaughter about religion.
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In 2013, a group of atheist bloggers observed Lent and wrote about the experience.
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A study last year found that 32% of all American would be "less likely" to vote for an atheist (an equal number felt a similar aversion to Islam) but only 20% of younger voters (aged 18-29) held that anti-atheist view.
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However, her husband of 15 years is not just an atheist but, as he puts it, an "evangelical fundamentalist atheist"—a former trustee of the British Humanist Association and a secular activist who campaigned against the Pope's 2010 state visit to London.
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Another study used this method to reveal that people think "atheist" faces are less trustworthy.
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I had a friend of mine come over one day, a friend who's an atheist.
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Dong and his parishioners are among millions of illegal Christians worshiping in officially atheist China.
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In truth, I'm actually critical of Islam and I'd probably rather identify as an atheist.
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Back then I didn't know what an agnostic or atheist or monotheist or whatever was.
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One recent prime minister was more typical of her time: Julia Gillard, a professed atheist.
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One is the anti-communist tradition of speaking truth to atheist power, whatever the price.
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Richard Dawkins himself, who is a ... well, you don't get more atheist than Richard Dawkins.
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Devout Catholics bridle at the notion that an atheist ruling party should pick their clergy.
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I mean, I had never been to an atheist website or conference or ... All right.
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Shuman was an outspoken atheist transhumanist, and he'd already clashed with Firestone on numerous occasions.
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My southern baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist.
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I wonder if I was an atheist whether I would have made this decision anyway.
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But you can't bully and be mean to others this is coming from an atheist!
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Of course you feel disgusted, Calvin would say, that's exactly how an atheist should react!
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Even so, it would be a rare atheist who is outright opposed to charitable giving.
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When you say someone's an atheist, that's a very small piece of their belief system.
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My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist.
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For G. H. Hardy, he was an atheist who was all about rigor and proof.
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Malcolm is a burgeoning atheist, but his loyalty to Benedicta and her order never waivers.
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I'm an atheist and my husband's agnostic, and religion is not part of our lives.
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Prophet Muhammad, we are told by the atheist in the ad, could not make it.
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Nevertheless, this atheist and Catholic do agree on one thing — the right to religious freedom.
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And my politics certainly do not line up with those of every atheist or secularist.
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And my politics certainly do not line up with those of every atheist or secularist.
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Emma furiously rejects this interpretation, in ways that many an atheist and Foucaultian will recognize.
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As an atheist, de Botton isn't interested in defending religion so much as understanding it.
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Obviously there are South Asian men who are Hindu or Christian or atheist or agnostic.
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I think you're an atheist if you don't need the idea of a creator God.
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In his new book, "The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist," the evangelical Christian writer Larry Alex Taunton describes a road trip he took in 2010 with the prominent atheist Christopher Hitchens, who was dying of esophageal cancer.
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Sam Harris, an atheist public intellectual, is among the best-known advocates of the second view.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK As an atheist, I'm almost exclusively never at church.
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An atheist association had displayed a pineapple, along with a sign that said 'Muhammad the pineapple.
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You could be an atheist, you can be a Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Christian - whatever you want.
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"I'm not an atheist for the same reason I'm not a theist," he wrote last summer.
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He was an atheist turned Christian apologist, and his theology makes for fascinating if dense intellectualism.
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As a former Taoist and current atheist, I have a tenuous relationship with the spirit world.
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He was an atheist locked in lifelong battle with a God who neither cared nor existed.
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They also hope to soften some of the social stigma still attached to the "atheist" label.
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Determining that there was no rational argument for God's existence, he became a militant atheist, too.
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I'm an atheist … I don't want to see any kind of religious ideologies imposed on anyone.
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Although she considers herself an atheist, she does not mean to disrespect those who are not.
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For years I spoke at atheist conferences and worked as a full-time humanist community organizer.
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Then each hand became marked with a simple label: Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Scientologist or atheist.
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The group was earlier accused of being involved in the murder of a well-known atheist.
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Mr. Wolfe does not complain about evolution on religious grounds; in fact, he is an atheist.
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I now live in Europe with my husband, who is an atheist, and my two children.
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I didn't learn "atheist" until a couple years later in my religion textbook in eighth grade.
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It was the whole lifestyle, everyone dressed in black… black metal connected with my inner atheist.
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His Facebook page, which has been deleted, listed that he liked a number of atheist groups.
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It could even trouble an atheist judge whose conscience tells her that capital punishment is wrong.
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He said he was an atheist, and she said her Christian faith was important to her.
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"Then I called myself an atheist for a while, just kind of being rebellious," he said.
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The atheist humanists in Houellebecq's 2022 are doomed, not just to extinction but also to uncoolness.
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"Then I called myself an atheist for a while, just kind of being rebellious," he admits.
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Torcaso was an atheist and declined to make such a statement, so his application was denied.
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The emergence of the atheist Soviet state in 1922 dealt a severe blow to the church.
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But my husband — Catholic by culture, atheist by intellect — wanted nothing to do with organized religion.
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It is in this sense that Spinoza's contemporaries called him an atheist: he made God unrecognizable.
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The word "meme" was invented by evolutionary biologist and future atheist heartthrob Richard Dawkins in 1976.
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I'm an atheist, so when I hear that word, it's not something that I personally experience.
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I started this project as an atheist who was never really interested in UFOs or aliens.
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The fourth kind of atheist is the kind who turn politics into a kind of religion.
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The Atheist Muslim By Ali Rizvi The Atheist Muslim offers the most sophisticated and nuanced (yet also compelling and readable) answers yet published, to questions critical to humanity's future: how can one consider oneself Muslim by culture and heritage, yet embrace a nonreligious and progressive worldview?
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Rand could be described as a devout atheist, and she explicitly said that self-sacrifice was immoral.
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This is what I'll tell the Mexicans, even those who say 'I'm atheist but I'm a Guadalupeño.
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His father was a Southern Baptist preacher who also managed a steakhouse; Zimmerman became a vegetarian atheist.
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In February, BuzzFeed News exposed allegations of sexual harassment against another prominent atheist, the physicist Lawrence Krauss.
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Ashley Miller, an atheist activist, wrote to the board Thursday corroborating both R. and St. Clair's accounts.
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An atheist is friended by God on social media, and begins being a change agent for good.
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Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jew, or atheist; in France, India, Argentina, everywhere, Notre Dame's doom brought personal pain.
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Even their character reversals — Scully is a devoted Catholic, while Mulder is an atheist — make perfect sense.
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Either they would be persecuted by secular or atheist regimes, or they would flourish freely and unpredictably.
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My family is atheist, but my mom and I decided to get baptised together four years ago.
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And what it definitely would not be: It would definitely not have been an atheist communist dictatorship.
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I think what makes it uniquely awful is that I hate her now, but I'm an atheist.
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I used to be an in-your-face atheist and a very strong proponent of gun rights.
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China's officially atheist Communist Party brooks no challenge to its rule and is obsessed with social stability.
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VICE spoke with her to find out how a devoted fundie housewife becomes Atheist of the Year.
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Richard Coles, a former atheist who has become something of a celebrity vicar, wrote in The Mirror.
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But most of us don't experience our religious — or atheist, or agnostic or "spiritual" — identities as metaphor.
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He said Mr. Adan excelled in school, and was not especially religious, though also not an atheist.
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Liu had been brought up an atheist Communist, but he was familiar with Muslim rituals and customs.
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The government solved that the problem for them — by banning atheist books, if not also punishing atheists.
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Remember being atheist or agnostic does not make you smarter or better than us in any way.
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Hefazat-e-Islam, a fundamentalist group, has staged huge rallies calling for the murder of atheist bloggers.
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From an atheist perspective, life is precious — whenever someone dies, it's the end of their personal universe.
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Among them were Methodists, Baptists, Catholics, Lutherans, a Quaker, a Jew, and possibly an atheist or two.
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And, like Devin P. Kelley, the gunman in Sutherland Springs, Mr. King had been an outspoken atheist.
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He plays a hard-bitten 90-year-old atheist in the movie, which also stars Mr. Lynch.
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I'm an atheist who works at a church and a woman who works in a tech department.
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Communist party members must adhere to Marxist principles and remain "staunchly atheist", Xi said in his remarks.
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"Then I called my self an atheist for a while, just kind of being rebellious," he admitted.
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"I rise in opposition to this atheist statue, all right?" a resident said at a county meeting.
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David Silverman, the president of American atheists and a "self-described firebrand," demands we all chant atheist!
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That's why in spite of being an atheist, I decided to act for those who are believers.
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I wouldn't call myself an atheist any longer, but I also wouldn't say that I'm a believer.
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How can anyone criticize these politicians (and perhaps many others) for staying in the 'atheist closet' when more than half of U.S. adults assume belief in God is essential to morality and 53% are less likely to support a candidate for president if he or she is an atheist?
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For Trumpites, the Cold War was a struggle with an atheist, socialist superpower that had to be won.
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As I get older and I realize the finite nature of my life, I'm an atheist ... Oh no.
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Sam's professor, fifty years an atheist, whispers a prayer underneath the roar of wind at the cave entrance.
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Skeptics promote science and reason over superstition and quackery, and have a big overlap with the atheist community.
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Samad's death marks the sixth time a Bangladeshi writer of atheist material has been killed in 14 months.
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It has taken a prophet seated firmly in an atheist pew to publicise the creed's contradictions more widely.
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While he loves the Tissot panel, he admitted, "I'm a raging atheist," distancing himself from its religious message.
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The woman, an atheist activist named Cristina Rad, described the incident in a YouTube video posted in March.
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Ansar Bangla has issued a hit list of atheist bloggers, including some targets in Europe and North America.
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But at the moment I am a strict atheist and actually completely agree with everything in that film.
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Zen said he believed any deal with atheist China would deal a significant blow to Pope Francis' credibility.
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And when we want to ask someone about gay people, we go to the devout atheist gay activist.
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I believe the earth is stationary but you have to realize I was an atheist for seven years.
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But Mr. Siddiquee was not, like most of the previous victims, an avowed atheist or anti-religious campaigner.
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Let's pretend GOP emails surfaced with operatives planning to attack Bernie Sanders for being Jewish or an Atheist.
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In a sense they are modernist icons for the only society in the world that was officially atheist.
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For more than three years now, Islamist militants have murdered atheist bloggers, members of religious minorities and others.
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Castro viewed the Catholic Church as a particularly dangerous threat to the atheist state he envisioned for Cuba.
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A self-declared Protestant atheist, he is as passionate about his hometown as he is fearful for it.
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While 23% of Americans identify as atheist, agnostic or "nothing in particular," in Congress they compose just 0.2%.
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An outspoken atheist, he has been granted several interviews by Francis, many of them followed by Vatican objections.
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They were also responsible for some of the murders and attacks on atheist bloggers between 2013 and 2015.
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Comedian Gervais, famously an atheist, and novelist Fallon, don't really see a point in marriage as an institution.
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Miles (Brandon Micheal Hall) is a stubborn atheist who hosts a podcast in which he debates God's nonexistence.
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In a matter of decades, the country was transformed from an Imperialist nation to an atheist, communist society.
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Two years ago, the atheist Sam Harris told Ezra Klein that Charles Murray was cancel culture's patient zero.
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I'd started that trail reading Christopher Hitchens, the atheist and brilliant polemicist — sustenance for my fortress of reason.
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If I got into one of those things, I'll be praying the entire time, and I'm an atheist.
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From what I understand of your Christianity — and yes, I'm an atheist — perhaps it makes me a Christian.
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If an atheist and a Catholic walked into a bar, how do you think their conversation would go?
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If you're the village atheist in a small town in Alabama, you're probably the most tolerant person there.
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The Saudis were religious and conservative, and very much opposed the atheist wave led by the Soviet Union.
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Zuckerberg, who had previously been described as an atheist, said over the holidays that he believes religion is important.
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In January 1998, Pope John Paul II visited a nation that had been officially atheist until the early 1990s.
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They were terrible things, talking about Jewish, talking about race, talking about atheist, trying to pin labels on people.
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Honestly, watching him rake his way through October, it was something even an atheist would give a moment's consideration.
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Because if you reason back to first causes, and if you're an atheist, you get to a logical contradiction.
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This month alone, killers in Bangladesh have murdered a university professor, an atheist blogger, and two gay rights activists.
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As an ethnic Berber and an atheist, he faced certain discrimination and persecution if he was returned to Libya.
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The group has effectively declared war against atheist writers who dare to challenge al Qaeda's strict interpretation of Islam.
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The survey also found the share of Americans who have reservations about voting for an atheist president has declined.
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Be yourself and be proud of your identity, [whether you're] Muslim, Sikh, Aboriginal, Jewish, Christian, atheist, or anyone else.
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"I'm an atheist, but I feel like the way to describe this is bathed in God's love," Bazer said.
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The group has essentially declared war against atheist writers who dare to challenge al Qaeda's strict interpretation of Islam.
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This isn't contingency-planning so much as the kind of prayer an atheist might resort to in an earthquake.
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Pew's February 2007 survey found that 63% said they would be "less likely" to vote for an atheist candidate.
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With Russia under atheist control, the flow of Russian novices to the ancient community came to an abrupt end.
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Yet I don't know of any prominent atheist, humanist, or secular organizations that took the opportunity to condemn Spencer.
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Gray admires the mystical atheist Arthur Schopenhauer, who didn't believe in God and didn't particularly believe in reality, either.
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"I don't care whether you're liberal, conservative, Catholic or atheist, keeping families together is really important," she said. Mrs.
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It is here in the second semester I started getting depressed, became an atheist, and ultimately created this plan.
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He is, like Gervais, also an outspoken atheist, and he gets several chances to best believers in verbal combat.
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Despite Mr. Xi's efforts to expand the officially atheist party's control of worship, religious life in China is flourishing.
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The Guardian said the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, an outspoken atheist, was one of the bidders who lost out.
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Mr. Sheaffer is an experimental filmmaker whose work often grapples with sexuality, and he is also a committed atheist.
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He was especially vocal in his conviction that his atheist son was destined for the infernal torments of hell.
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That is why this Catholic and atheist believe we must reclaim true religious freedom — freedom of and from religion.
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"He learns to be kind and generous and altruistic without expectation of reward, " said Mr. Minchin, an outspoken atheist.
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I'm still libertarian and atheist, and now I'm vegan to (pleather) boot, but none of that matters any more.
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As a result, the prayer service has begun to attract some Christian and atheist students for its political message.
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Though his experience eventually became the mirror opposite of Strobel's, going from believer to atheist via a historical investigation.
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There is not a single open atheist amid the most diverse Congress in history, according to a Pew study.
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Youth Congress members in Kerala, India's largely Christian and atheist state, were also arrested for holding a beef festival.
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Miles, an atheist played by the effortlessly charming Brandon Micheal Hall, hosts a podcast where he dunks on believers.
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I mentioned earlier that I watched an atheist give an invocation before a town board she had previously sued.
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The happy couple were Laura Lacole, a model and outspoken atheist, and Eunan O'Kane, a footballer for the Irish republic.
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This rise in popularity of Jediism has prompted the Atheist community to decry the census equivalent of a donkey vote.
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Roy's name had originally appeared on a hit list of 84 so-called atheist bloggers that started circulating in 212.
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It's both an affirmation and a critique of atheism, written by an atheist who is aware of all its contradictions.
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He said he felt like it was a de facto crime to admit to being an atheist in this country.
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For an atheist who misses the liturgical solemnity and theological strangeness of High Church, ''Dopesmoker'' delivers the next best thing.
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It shouldn't have to be said that Muslim Americans are no different than Christian Americans, Jewish Americans, or Atheist Americans.
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In 2007, more than 60 percent of Americans said they would be less likely to support an atheist for president.
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Ms Lankesh was also an atheist and a staunch left-winger, whose views had earned her enemies far and wide.
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I call the box a god box, but I think you can be an atheist and still use this technique.
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Without evidence, these false articles and speciously labeled videos describe Kelley as a radical leftist sympathizer or a militant atheist.
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My father was a liberal, atheist homicide detective who fled Milwaukee's inner-city chaos for the serenity of the Rockies.
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It overlaps with large swaths of 4chan, men's rights activism, the online atheist movement, pickup artist culture, Reddit, and Tumblr.
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Mr Nisanyan is of Armenian extraction, as well as being an outspoken atheist and a critic of the AK party.
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As someone who has worked in the atheist movement for the better part of a decade, this silence scares me.
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No surprise, she shares many of the qualities of her latest heroine, Susanna Kessler, whom she describes as atheist-Jewish.
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DNC wanted to expose Bernie Sanders as an atheist, well aware of the prejudice atheists face in getting a Govt.
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"I will become a Mormon, how about that?" the self-declared atheist said at the time, referring to Romney's religion.
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And while the predominantly white atheist groups might welcome a black face, many black atheists feel their voices are obscured.
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I came up with the atheist story kind of at the end, that was sort of a last-minute addition.
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And then we've got the wildcard, my uncle Piotr, who immigrated from what is now Poland, who's a devout atheist.
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I was afraid they'd label me an atheist or a munafiq, but the truth is they were the real hypocrites.
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There were all these vloggers — the Amazing Atheist springs to mind — who would just rant and rant about Anita Sarkeesian.
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If I weren't an atheist and believed in afterlives like most people in America, I'd be a very different person.
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Organized religion may be on the decline, with more Americans than ever identifying as either atheist, agnostic or religiously unaffiliated.
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For me, Cioran is like an atheist, not just in a strictly religious sense, but as a kind of nihilist.
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He's a moralist who can appeal to the New Atheist set, even though he doesn't share their hostility to religion.
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My stance isn't related to any ideological position toward animal rights, nor is it due to my being an atheist.
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The religious views of a man sometimes described as the world's most famous atheist were not disqualifying, Dr. Hall said.
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It's probably worth mentioning that I'm an atheist, which really drove me to edit my word choice when people sneeze.
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He became an atheist and told her that if God existed, he wouldn't let the couple endure so many hardships.
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Abdulrahman had been detained at a military base by a military commander and accused of being an atheist last December.
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I want to live peacefully in my historic home with all my neighbors, be they Muslim, Christian, Jewish or atheist.
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The professed atheist has also authored two books, including "Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity" in 2010.
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" As an atheist, Fahy also distrusted the 12 steps due to their demands that he submit to a "higher power.
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Lonergan is an atheist, but his work frequently explores how religious faith might be sustaining, or shaken by lived experience.
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Other zingers of varying quality are dropped here and there—the throwaway "Langford's still an atheist" is one I like.
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The Satanic Temple weighed in on Boehner's comments, slamming Cruz in an interview with Friendly Atheist, a blog published on Patheos.
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It comes back to the attitude of the message-board atheist: raging at people who can't see what's really going on.
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And the immortal title track mixes religious and sexual ecstasy so thrillingly, it could make a celibate atheist want to dance.
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Richard Dawkins himself, the famed biologist and atheist figurehead who has often collaborated with Krauss, has not commented on the allegations.
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About two dozen atheist writers, publishers, members of religious minorities, social activists and foreign aid workers have been slain since 2013.
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A misrepresentation of the prominence of religion is Australia is something that the Atheist Foundation is not too keen on, see.
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Last month alone saw similar killings of a university professor, a Hindu tailor, an atheist blogger and two gay rights activists.
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Mr Reed notes that McLemore, an atheist, is not harmed by the revelation: he is "worm dirt now…unaffected by this".
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An avowed atheist and early prophet of humanity's ecological suicide, Porter read Alfred North Whitehead and Leon Trotsky with equal enthusiasm.
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Following the death of a child, Amanda, who was formerly an atheist, started looking into spirituality and eventually became a Pagan.
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But both he and his new-atheist adversaries can sometimes fall into the trap of bunching together different forms of religion.
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I got inducted into the pantheon of atheists and this whole New Atheist phenomenon happened with Hitch and Dawkins and Dennett.
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"We Christians in Hong Kong are anxious of the prospects of surrendering to the pressures of the atheist government," it said.
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Promises, covenants and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon or sanctity for an atheist.
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As Aussies scramble to get in their census forms on Tuesday, they're being met with stern-faced admonitions from atheist groups.
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If you've waited this long to buy gifts, you're either a degenerate or an atheist—in either case, shame on you!!!
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In one of the grubbiest messages, an official seemed to float the idea of insinuating that the senator was an atheist.
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I'm too uncertain, or perhaps too intellectually lazy, to declare myself an atheist, but I would never call myself spiritual, either.
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In the Soviet Union, numerous times between 1917 and 1991 leaders banned Christmas celebrations to comply with their socialist, atheist rule.
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The 'sinicization' of religionThe Party, which is officially atheist, has for decades attempted to control religious organizations to maintain its dominance.
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Swift's counterpoint that Trump is probably an atheist—and that Hillary Clinton is a life-long Methodist—seemed not to matter.
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The family lived in a working-class neighborhood where his father, Wilhelm, an atheist, ran a socialist bookstore with his brother.
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Black atheist must find a way to navigate these issues while living in a country that isn't exactly inclusive towards them.
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Proust, born of a Jewish mother and raised Catholic by atheist parents, did not share Ruskin's religious faith or moral puritanism.
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Republican, Democrat, Christian, Atheist—you can go to a show and you're just the same for an hour and a half.
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Although the party's 90 million members are supposed to be atheist, they lauded the temple for its Communist-style selfless sacrifice.
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Even though the percentage of people who identify as atheist is on the rise, the world is an overwhelmingly devout place.
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Hating turkey isn't an impeachable offense, of course, but you're better off as an atheist running for office in today's America.
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"Yes, he's a rationalist, an atheist and an advocate of the science of evolution — great, so am I," Mr. Norr wrote.
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A fervent atheist, he introduced Danish readers to Nietzsche and, late in life, wrote a book entitled "Jesus: A Myth" (1925).
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Not all of us are bent on changing people's beliefs; in fact, atheist Quakers attend services with theists regularly and happily.
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Whether you're black, white, Latino, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, atheist, straight, gay, bisexual, or transgender — we all basically want the same things.
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He offers two separate funeral services -- a more traditional Chinese Buddhist commemoration and a secular farewell for atheist or agnostic owners.
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Meanwhile, the number of people who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or "nothing in particular," stands at 28503 percent.
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Several proposals have been considered in the past concerning the development of an official AA pamphlet directed to the atheist alcoholic.
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However, motions for official inclusivity of the atheist and agnostic perspective have been ignored, if not flat-out denied and vetoed.
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You said you grew up with an atheist Jewish mother and that experimenting with spirituality felt like the most forbidden thing.
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North Korea is officially an atheist state, and the country claimed Bae was part of a Christian plot to overthrow the regime.
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Although officially atheist, China in 1995 selected Gyaltsen Norbu as Tibet's 11th Panchen Lama, the number-two spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Many of the faithful are appalled that he would recognise priests over whose appointment the stridently atheist Communist Party has a veto.
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The lead role in God Friended Me — an atheist podcaster whose father is a minister — was written for a young black man.
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Once an atheist with an affinity for rap music and a dream of moving to America, Mkhayar joined Islamic State at 18.
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"I have not gone to the police because police actually tried to arrest me in 2013," said one atheist blogger in Bangladesh.
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He said he felt like it was a de facto crime to admit to being an atheist in this majority Muslim country.
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"I have not gone to the police because police actually tried to arrest me in 2013," one atheist blogger in Bangladesh said.
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The secular aspect is important; Epstein said that 40 to 50 percent of students identify as either atheist, agnostic, or non-religious.
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But just as you find traces of religiosity in the most committed atheist, every investor is at some level a value investor.
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Clinton, she told me, is an atheist who wears an earpiece during debates so billionaire George Soros can feed her talking points.
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I was brought up as a strict Catholic in a rural town next to Mexico City and my girlfriend was an atheist.
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So if you can't ask people outright whether they're atheist and get an honest response, how do you go about finding them?
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Claims and confessions Claims of responsibility for the atheist blogger murders emerged on social media from Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent.
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Patricia Lockwood's father, previously an atheist, converted to Christianity after watching The Exorcist more than 70 times while aboard a naval submarine.
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Most young Arabs shun IS. "Joining IS is the same as turning atheist or converting to Christianity," says Mr Nabil in Cairo.
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Jew, Arab, Christian, Hindu, atheist and agnostic are all equal, endowed with a spark of the divine that lends them infinite dignity.
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During the atheist Soviet regime, it was devout women who kept the flame of faith alive and passed it onto their children.
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Me. If I can get my message out, there's no doubt in my mind that I can win, even being an atheist.
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Calls by Catholic groups to boycott the film for its "atheist agenda" and themes of "killing God" only added to its buzz.
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His mother, to whom he was very close, died when Housman was twelve, an experience that turned him into a lifelong atheist.
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Mr. Uddin, 26, was an atheist who frequently expressed his views on Facebook, often posting as many as five times a day.
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Unlike the linguist—and new atheist—Steven Pinker, Gray regards the idea that the world is getting better as self-evidently silly.
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Since nearly 1 in 4 American adults describe their religion as "None", it's untenable to maintain that Congress has no atheist members.
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When Liberal residents drive to church on Sundays, they're driving on avenues named after the heroes of what became the atheist movement.
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He was reportedly consumed with a dispute with his mother-in-law and posted atheist and pro-gun statements on social media.
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According to the Pew Research Center, people born since 218 are far more likely to be atheist or agnostic than their parents.
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Earlier this year, Pope Francis had one of his periodic chats with Eugenio Scalfari, the ninety-four-year-old atheist Italian journalist.
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On his popular blog, Ehrman has occasionally responded to personal attacks by the atheist crowd, who do not share his considered equanimity.
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Such views are clearly visible on atheist web forums and were also broadcast in a BBC documentary on Pakistani atheists last month.
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The British actor Stephen Fry is known as many things: a witty television presenter, a roguish Twitter personality and an outspoken atheist.
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As a pacifist, atheist and campaigner for democratic values, Maikel should easily pass all security screens for admission into the United States.
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The construction of such scenes in public squares or on government property is contested regularly by atheist, free speech or secularist groups.
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There should be no Jewish state, no Christian state, no Muslim state, no Hindu state and not even an officially atheist state.
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Ameen's other friends in town were also Iraqis—a Christian and a Shiite who had renounced Islam and was now an atheist.
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For reasons He can't understand, He has fallen in love with a human woman, a "post-punk" atheist lab assistant named Daphne.
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For the six months she was there—between February and August—she corresponded via AOL Instant Messenger with atheist vlogger Zinnia Jones.
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Here are just a few things I would like people to know about atheism and being an atheist in the United States.
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I thought it was such an amazing thing that I exist now; I appreciated life in such a different way as an atheist.
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Perhaps, if I had grown up atheist, never expecting anything but nothingness to come after death, the concept might be easier to accept.
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My dad was a Christian his whole life, and my mom didn't say she was an atheist until she was in her 80s.
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The turning point, perhaps, was when hundreds of thousands of Hefazat supporters marched on Dhaka in 2013, demanding the hanging of atheist bloggers.
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Like many other communities in the #MeToo era, the atheist movement is undergoing a reckoning over the treatment of women in its ranks.
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China's constitution guarantees religious freedom, but rights groups say the officially atheist ruling Communist Party seeks to restrict religious practice, especially for Muslims.
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According to a Gallup poll, 40% of Americans would not vote for an atheist president, though that number has declined in recent years.
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I became an atheist when I was studying religion at a Christian college, and for years I felt very alone in my atheism.
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Younger people are even less religious, with 35 percent of millennials saying they identify as atheist, agnostic or with no religion in particular.
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Consider how an articulate critic of Islam like Ayaan Hirsi Ali or an atheist like Sam Harris would fare under hate speech laws?
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About two weeks ago, an atheist student blogger was killed by men with machetes at a crowded intersection in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital.
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The officially atheist Chinese Communist Party disapproves of all kinds of grassroots organizations as they are seen to undermine its grip on power.
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For three years he lived as a closeted atheist, not even telling his wife, all while serving as a deacon in their church.
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Church or no church, Holy Roman Catholic or otherwise, Jesus is at best a nuisance, at worst an atheist, either way a heretic.
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He certainly has not been a strident atheist, but he claims to have no time for the priest and his talk of God.
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Religious extremism has, in the last few years, resulted in several violent outbursts, including the murders of atheist bloggers and gay rights activists.
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He's the¯\_(ツ)_/¯ candidate, the avatar of the faction of the right that loves fake viral stories about Marines attacking atheist college professors.
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"For the first time, they were able to express religious feeling, which had been banned in an atheist system," Mr. von Christierson said.
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It's really not popular: Gallup shows that more Americans say they would vote for a gay, Muslim or atheist president than a socialist.
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The only other candidate traits that rated so poorly were a Muslim candidate (270% would support) and an atheist candidate (280% would support).
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The pride is evident in his voice: The lawsuit was filed by a local atheist group; Dean is rooting for it to fail.
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This is the first in a series of interviews with religious scholars from several faiths — and one atheist — on the meaning of death.
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Although he described himself as an atheist, many of his larger works were devoted to Jewish spirituality and culture and to Holocaust remembrance.
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It overlaps with sections of 4chan and Reddit, the men's rights movement, pickup artist culture, the online atheist and libertarian movements, and more.
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" Reading this list, it becomes apparent that /r/atheism never intended to turn loose upon the world the unfortunate stereotype of the "reddit atheist.
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As atheist China warms to the Vatican, religious persecution 'intensifies' These problems are explained in a new and carefully researched study by Freedom House.
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In the last 14 months, at least six atheist bloggers and secular writers and editors have been hacked to death, sometimes in public places.
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According to Danley, Paddock was an atheist who supported President Trump and his immigration policies, but had no strong political opinions around gun control.
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The Sanders campaign has said he is not an atheist, pointing out that he has spoken of his belief in God on numerous occasions.
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Religion has seen a revival in China in the last 30 years as the officially atheist Communist Party has relaxed its once-severe repression.
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If your family is religious and your partner is an atheist, then a religious holiday probably isn't the best time for them to meet.
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Earlier, the Kerala state president of the BJP described the women's visit as "a conspiracy by the atheist rulers to destroy the Hindu temples".
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Roth was an atheist who swore allegiance to earthly imagination, whether devising pornographic functions for raw liver or indulging romantic fantasies about Anne Frank.
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The Vatican is fairly pragmatic about this, even though devout Catholics bridle at the fact that an atheist ruling party is picking their clergy.
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Critics, such as the late atheist writer Christopher Hitchens, who made a documentary called "Hell's Angel" on Mother Teresa, say the system is flawed.
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Fifty-one percent of people surveyed, meanwhile, said they would be "less likely" to vote for a hypothetical candidate if that candidate were atheist.
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"I was raised in an atheist household," he tells me on a Skype call just a few weeks before the film's August 143 release.
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Where an atheist has zero belief in god, an agnostic remains open to the idea of a god, but doesn't worship one in particular.
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"We didn't want anyone to misunderstand and think that this was to be an advocacy position for someone who is an atheist," he said.
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The plan so far, officials said, is for the Communist party — which is officially atheist — to oversee a reincarnation search themselves within Chinese territory.
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Syria: the Sunni, top, Quaker, druze, atheist, sabi ', ishmael, Shia, secular, the legacy of the cab, now schori, Turkmen, Syriac, Arabic, Kurdish, yes democracy.
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But we know that Democrats, Republicans, rich, poor, religious, atheist -- everyone has abortions, and everyone knows and loves someone who has had an abortion.
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Devin Kelley, who on Sunday killed 26 people in a mass shooting at a small church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, may be an atheist.
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In the absence of openly atheist members, it's highly likely that the interests and concerns of atheists will continue to be ignored and unappreciated.
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"Sometimes when I hang around with A.I. enthusiasts here in the valley, I feel like an atheist at a convention of evangelicals," he said.
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Twenty-three percent of the country's population identifies as atheist, agnostic or "nothing in particular," while only one person in the new Congress — Sen.
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Ex-Muslims in the group would be sent for counseling, while attempts to spread atheist ideas could be prosecuted under existing laws, Asyraf said.
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Atheist Republic's founder, Armin Navabi, said the group's gatherings caused no harm to the public and were not considered a threat in other countries.
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Ms. Morgan's application was the second instance in less than two years that the commission had rejected an atheist license plate, Mr. Katskee said.
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She must have known that this was a very, very hot thing to say, particularly to someone like me, an atheist and a desperado.
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In Tibet, "local officials [from the Atheist Communist Party] have intruded into core decision-making about how monasteries and nunneries are run," Richardson says.
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Lots of folks would assume that black folks who are humanist and atheist have sold out the culture—that they're no longer fully black.
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Preston Smith, the English teacher who created the installation, is an atheist and believes that the city should allow all forms of religious expression.
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Although his novels often explored the Jewish experience in America, Roth, who said he was an atheist, rejected being labeled a Jewish-American writer.
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My maternal grandmother was Buddhist, my parents and paternal grandparents are and were Christian, and my maternal grandfather was atheist with a Confucian bias.
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Yaroslav Sivulsky, a representative of the European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses, said the verdict evoked the atheist Soviet period when Moscow persecuted the group.
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Islamists have succeeded in branding secularists as atheists; one of the most dangerous things to be called right now in Bangladesh is an atheist.
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But at other times Einstein described himself as "not an atheist," and the letter does not annul the seemingly spiritual characteristics of his thinking.
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Earlier this month, Nazimuddin Samad, 28, a so-called "atheist blogger" who condemned religious fanaticism, was murdered near Jagannath University, where he studied law.
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A man was awarded more than $150,000 after being denied a license plate that read 'IM GOD' Perhaps unsurprisingly, the man is an atheist.
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In one chapter, we encounter the world through the fierce resistance of a Zapatista; in another, through the moral anguish of an atheist doctor.
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To follow this series of monthly interviews with religious scholars (and one atheist) on death, or read all previous Stone essays, visit us here.
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"I should be the thing that gives her life meaning," he whines to his atheist friend as they swill whiskey and quote Bertrand Russell.
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Less widely known is that at the secondary level, most Chinese attend Christian schools — even though they come from the world's largest atheist state.
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And even though his support was always offered through the lens of his religion, he never judged me as less moral for being an atheist.
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Islamic militants in Bangladesh have increased attacks on a number of secularist, atheist writers, bloggers, publishers, foreigners, and religious minorities over the past five years.
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For a close look at these views, we talked to Terrisa Bukovinac, 35, a pro-life Democrat (and atheist vegetarian) who lives in San Francisco.
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It remains the case that a substantial proportion of Americans would baulk at voting for an atheist candidate, even one whose general credentials were good.
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Roberts, which reached the DC Circuit in 2010, in which atheist activist Michael Newdow challenged the "so help me God" provision of the presidential oath.
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With him is black housecat Miss Kitty, who strains at her multi-coloured lead with such intensity I can only conclude she's an atheist cat.
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I suppose I must be a "soft" atheist for believing that there is a huge political upside to ad hoc coalitions with liberal religious groups.
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The jihad in Afghanistan in the 1980s was regarded, uncontroversially, as a defensive war to protect a Muslim country against the atheist Soviet communist invader.
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And then to turn it back, all of us together, black, white, brown, Christian and atheist, Muslim and Jewish, richer and poorer, liberal and conservative.
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They were terrible things, talking about Jewish, talking about race, talking about atheist, trying to pin labels on people -- what was said was a disgrace.
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That's higher than the number who said they wouldn't vote for a Muslim (38 percent) or those who wouldn't vote for an atheist (40 percent).
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These include at least some people from the Middle East who face persecution because they are LGBT or atheist or members of a religious minority.
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Minchin gave a touching rendition of his song "White Wine in the Sun," a song about how a rampant atheist like Minchin still enjoys Christmas.
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Currently, Congress consists of Buddhist (28503), Christian (22019), Hindu (1), Jewish (28), Mormon (16), and Muslim (2) members, but doesn't have a single atheist member.
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Is Giacomo Sartori, a soil scientist (for real) and the author of seven novels, just another "new atheist," making fun of religion because it's irrational?
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Mr. White, 34, was once a proud nonbeliever who protested for the right to organize an atheist student club at his high school in Michigan.
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A self-described "objectivist, atheist and independent/former radio DJ" is suing "The Breakfast Club" for allegedly defaming and threatening him during a radio interview.
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He repeatedly referred to himself as "subhuman," and said he killed his family rather than himself because he was an atheist and scared of death.
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Of those surveyed, about a third were Christian, while 25 percent considered themselves atheist or agnostic and 21 percent identified as no religion in particular.
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"Queer is an extra layer on top of being gay just like Satan is an extra layer on top of being an atheist," Astaroth said.
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It was doubtful the Hog would allow a self-identified "Muslim-atheist" Ethiopian-American artist complete autonomy onboard, no matter how progressive their recent branding.
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Even though my mom is not a "good Muslim," she thinks, like most of them, that it's better to change religions than become an atheist.
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The atheist Communist Party also tightly controls religion in the country, only allowing citizens to practise if their sect is officially sanctioned by the government.
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Although officially atheist, China selected Gyaltsen Norbu as the 11th Panchen Lama in 1995 in a drive to win the hearts and minds of Tibetans.
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That didn't last, and Kim later banned pretty much all religion — though he became something of a god himself, quite a trick for an atheist.
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Even in my standup, if I can do a joke about Jesus that an atheist and an evangelical will love, I find that a [treat].
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But this show isn't called Kit, even though Kit Marlowe — atheist, spy, and murdered poet — has been crying out for a decent biopic for years.
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But the Salafists and Islamists who have no direct political mandate have insisted instead on the fact that Audin was a Communist and an atheist.
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Valerie Oltarsh-McCarthy, who sat among the congregation listening to a Sunday sermon on the perils of genetically modified vegetables, is, in fact, an atheist.
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Georgia Halliday, 26, was raised as an atheist in a liberal Massachusetts suburb, but converted to Islam three years ago and now wears a hijab.
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And in the case of "The Little Atheist," the quarrel in question revolved around Mike's rather carefree attitude toward the religion of his unborn child.
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A review last Sunday about "The Atheist Muslim," using information from the publisher's website, misstated the medical specialty of the book's author, Ali A. Rizvi.
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"I talk about the gods; I am an atheist," she wrote in the author's note to her best-known novel, The Left Hand of Darkness.
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And these gestures and quarrels are more than the merely familiar struggle of the atheist who constantly invokes a God he does not believe in.
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So when Ms. Tyson does get a client who identifies as atheist or L.G.B.T., she usually suggests other embryo transfer programs that aren't religiously affiliated.
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The uptick reflects the wider prevalence of the spiritually unaffiliated, or "nones," as nearly a quarter of Americans identified as atheist or agnostic in 2011.
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In fact, only a socialist candidate (47% would support) and an atheist candidate (60%) score lower than those who would vote for a candidate over 70.
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"The officially atheist Chinese government has long tried to impose its authority on Tibet by co-opting Tibetan Buddhism," said Free Tibet director Eleanor Byrne-Rosengren.
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Still, Christians, despite being the majority and the most powerful religion in the United States, get offended every time an atheist mocks those fantastical-seeming beliefs.
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One recent case, in 2012, saw a 30-year-old civil servant jailed for two-and-a-half years for declaring himself an atheist on Facebook.
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"My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist," Brad Marshall, the DNC's chief financial officer, said in the email.
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On the contrary, the slaying of the royals was a ritualistic act from the point of view not of any religion but of atheist, Bolshevik ideology.
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She talked to God, too; having been told to be an atheist, she was naturally the reverse, because with faith her soul could never be manipulated.
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Per ABC, the BJP's Kerala state president PS Sreedharan Pillai said the court's verdict was "a conspiracy by the atheist rulers to destroy the Hindu temples".
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It is one of only seven remaining countries where the expression of atheist views or defection from the official religion can result in the death penalty.
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First realizing that they weren't pretending to be Satanists, but were actually Satanists," Lane, who describes herself as "living in a "secular atheist bubble," told VICE.
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Few neighbors in this corner of the U.S. probably knew that Roy was an outspoken champion of atheist thought back in the country of his birth.
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And since you all know that I'm a New York Hollywood liberal atheist Jew, I am going to also match all of this myself 100 percent.
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All party employees are expected to be atheist, so those Uighurs who do become party officials are seen by fellow Uighurs as having abandoned their culture.
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DURING last year's mayoral race in Nashville, Megan Barry was accused of being an atheist; she duly went to church for a laying-on of hands.
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The attack was the deadliest in a series of murders since 2013, which initially targeted atheist bloggers but later also included foreigners, minorities and gay activists.
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Despite being officially atheist and having a long and antagonistic relationship with religion, the ruling Communist Party is presiding over a boom of Christianity in China.
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I started having doubts about religion very young, but I never admitted to my atheist beliefs until I was 16 and my actions started reflecting them.
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The reasons the Holy See is caving to the (atheist) Communist government are not entirely transparent, but it appears to be hoping for a historic thaw.
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The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, who raged against Muslim immigration to Europe at the turn of the century, believed she did so as a proud atheist.
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"Whether he was actually an atheist, whether he was actually an agnostic, what his position was, is not, to my mind, entirely clear," said Dr. Hall.
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Praying for Common Ground at the Christmas-Dinner Table (2014) A born-again Christian, a practicing Muslim and a militant atheist walk into a dining room.
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But as he took stock of the rest of his life, Campolo decided that there was no reason an atheist couldn't still be a minister too.
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They railed against the church's size and symbolism, saying that building it in a public space was a misappropriation of resources in the officially atheist state.
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But over the last several years, as extremist attacks on atheist bloggers and intellectuals became commonplace, secular thought was also fast receding from Bangladesh's public spaces.
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But we sat and had a more in-depth talk about our beliefs, and although he identified as atheist, he understood where I was coming from.
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But the church, which has made "inclusivity" a core principle, would not be goaded, even after Ms. Vosper publicly announced she was an atheist in 2013.
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The only person who dies, so far, is the bad guy (which in God's Not Dead is the atheist philosophy professor and the film's main antagonist).
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After years of quiet critique of the way NFL culture steeps itself in a certain brand of evangelical Christianity, Foster came out as an avowed atheist.
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But to find an atheist who seeks out religious services, one who talks about his atheism in church, and intends to return for more—that is unusual.
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There's a recurring motif in a particular swath of faith-based films in which an atheist who has a grudge against Christianity ends up an eventual convert.
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He asked not to be identified because he is on a hit list of 84 atheist writers published by a jihadi group more than a year ago.
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"Justice Ginsburg is my only personal hero, and as an atheist, my adoration of her is the closest thing I get to personal worship," she told Refinery29.
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And remember, fabricating stories about Bernie Sanders during the primary, their own candidate, when they floated the idea of calling him an atheist in Kentucky and Virginia.
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Though Hawking was an outspoken atheist, his family said they wanted a traditional church funeral so that many people whose lives he touched could pay their respects.
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Born in 1919 to a religious Pennsylvania family, Madalyn O'Hair grew up to become the funny, foul-mouthed, and feud-prone face of the modern atheist movement.
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And he was prolific, authoring eight books, editing two more books and managing a website that promoted "freethinking," an atheist intellectual movement that frequently challenged organized religion.
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Richard Spencer, the white supremacist and movement figurehead who coined the term " alt-right," discussed his atheism last year in an interview with atheist blogger David McAfee.
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Whether you follow some religion or you're an atheist, if you value human life, freedom and progress, you should recognize that Israel's chief enemy is also ours.
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Pope Francis, who is a great man, gave his first interview after being elected to Eugenio Scalfari, an Italian journalist who is also a self-proclaimed atheist.
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Such is the slippery label of "atheist" in the American context: slapped on those who explicitly reject it, eschewed by unbelievers who wish to avoid its stigma.
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China is officially an atheist country, although around 18% of the country's citizens identify as Buddhist, 5% Christians and under 2% Muslim, according to the CIA Factbook.
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A young, conservative atheist will be more open toward liberals than a conservative evangelical (which neatly solves the mystery of Trump's intense support among the Christian right).
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The authors Peter Boyle and Jamie Lindsay were actually pseudonyms for Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay, two skeptic, atheist, shitdisturbers with backgrounds in philosophy and mathematics, respectively.
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" I sent Steve's reflections to my friend Jonathan Rauch, who responded, "It's letters like this — the wisdom, the grace — that make me wish I weren't an atheist.
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They were essentially writing God out of the picture, but they did not consider themselves atheists; Dr. Altizer called himself a Christian atheist, further muddying the waters.
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In the middle of that year, nine Soviet Jews had escaped Russia and attempted to settle in settle in Israel to escape persecution in their atheist homeland.
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Anthony told me that the monks had checked out my credentials and noticed somewhere online that I was described as an atheist, which is not exactly true.
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I am now an atheist, but it didn't seem imperative to share this with my 98-year-old terminally ill parent who devoted her life to Christianity.
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"Let's look it up in the good book," and together we proceeded straight to the OED ("My Bible," as Oliver, a devout atheist, often referred to it).
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You could be Catholic, Jewish, Muslim or atheist, but still you were influenced by certain mainline ideas — the Protestant work ethic, the WASP definition of a gentleman.
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The percentage of people who identify as atheist, agnostic or "nothing in particular," often referred to as the "nones," stands at 26%, up from 17% in 2009.
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The critical distinction, rather, is that, whereas the believer submits to a moral framework received from a supposedly divine source, the atheist constructs his or her own.
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Far from being an atheist, Jefferson was a precocious advocate of what was later called "civil religion," the moral foundation of a truly free and united people.
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The plot again involves the theocratic Magisterium (Pullman is an outspoken atheist) and a cosmology in which everyone has a "daemon"—an externalized soul in animal form.
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In addition to being French and American, Olivier and I were translating, to varying degrees, across a host of Steiner's categories: scientist/artist, atheist/believer, man/woman.
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A man in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 22013 years in prison and 24,210 lashes for expressing his atheist beliefs in hundreds of posts on Twitter.
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He has noted many times the irony of an atheist regime expending significant energy and resources to identify the head of just one sect of Tibetan Buddhism.
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The thinkers profiled included the neuroscientist and prominent atheist writer Sam Harris, the podcaster Dave Rubin, and University of Toronto psychologist and Chaos Dragon maven Jordan Peterson.
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The first time I remember openly identifying as an atheist was when I announced to my high school freshman English class that I didn't believe in God.
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God's Not Dead(2014): $60.8 MillionKevin Sorbo stars as an atheist philosophy professor who demands that an evangelical undergrad (Shane Harper) debate him about the existence of God.
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"We believe Islamic militants were behind the attack, because the nature of the incident is similar to previous attacks carried out on atheist writers and activists," he said.
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Race and religion strongly predict whether someone supports or opposes Mr Trump; a vast majority of Americans who are black, Hispanic, Jewish, Muslim or atheist favour Mrs Clinton.
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Lobbying for reform is an odd coalition: a group called Atheist Ireland, plus the low-church Evangelical Alliance, and Ahmadi Muslims, who complain of bullying by Irish Sunnis.
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The Communist Party is officially atheist and for years has banned government employees and minors from fasting in Xinjiang, home to more than 10 million, mostly Muslim, Uygurs.
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It was the group that sent out a hit list of 84 "atheist" bloggers, and led to the murders of writers like Avijit Roy and prominent LGBT activists.
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Nazimuddin Samad, 28, was on a list of targets, along with 83 atheist bloggers, which a group of radical Islamist drew up and delivered to Bangladesh's interior ministry.
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Despite being a lifelong atheist, ignoring the historical, philosophical and moral origins of our political culture, and turning it all into a numbers game, is an enormous mistake.
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Not thinking clearly, the son confessed to his father that he was an atheist, whereupon the father revealed that he too had lost his faith many years ago.
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Greg Glassman is both a college dropout and an atheist, yet he has been invited to speak both at the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Divinity School.
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Someone might, for example, be a committed Christian but also practice Buddhist meditation or yoga, or be an atheist but attend Jewish family holidays and read tarot cards.
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On the other side, he's one of the most articulate critics of evangelical institutions, at times sounding like a new atheist prophet alongside Richard Dawkins or Bill Maher.
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A poll last month by the Pew Research Centre confirmed that being a professed atheist would be a deadly liability for anyone hoping to enter the White House.
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Look beyond atheism's biggest names and you will find vocal Trump supporters like author Robert M. Price and immensely popular atheist YouTubers with more than a million subscribers.
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"Atheism itself is exactly one thing: a lack of a belief in gods," he says, adding that identifying as an atheist doesn't mean you deny anyone else's beliefs.
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Any reluctant atheist knows what it is to look for these signs, to wonder what is coincidence and what is long-awaited evidence that God hears and understands.
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Even more disturbing is the revelation that Democratic bosses advocated suggesting Bernie Sanders is an atheist rather than a Jew in states where they believe atheists are unpopular.
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Although he used religious language in public and claimed to be a Muslim in his autobiography, he was probably an atheist, or at least a tough-minded agnostic.
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He meets other victims of the abuser, including one who is a militant atheist and another who blames his ongoing sexual and personal dysfunctions on his childhood travails.
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You may have known about these issues if Congress had an atheist member who stridently opposed discrimination against nonbelievers – just as Baldwin fiercely opposes discrimination against LGBT people.
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The Communist state is officially atheist, and though religious adherence is burgeoning, there has been a crackdown on its expression since the recent consolidation of Xi Jinping's authority.
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" Henderson continued, "They kept fighting the challenge as though it were an atheist or an agnostic who was suing, and as though it were a First Amendment case.
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The woman he has fallen for is a serious scientist as well as an atheist and an anti-Catholic activist (she steals crucifixes and burns them for fun).
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A comforting ear At an event in Rome, a boy received words of comfort from Pope Francis after asking if his atheist father could still go to heaven.
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With such uncertainty and chaos in the atheist world, it makes sense that people are drawn to groups like this, searching for answers that can't be found elsewhere.
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In May of 2013 Tooba was tweeting about how she pitied "poor atheist souls," but by the end of 2014 was justifying the slaughter of non-Muslim civilians.
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DNC Chief Financial Officer Brad Marshall's email does not name the Vermont senator, but it talks about a man of "Jewish heritage" Marshall believes to be an atheist.
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While American military cemeteries may look uniform with their rows of cross-adorned tombs, look closer and you'll find Wiccan Pentacles, Atheist Atoms, and the Hammer of Thor.
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"He certainly was no militant atheist," said Jonathan Swinton, a computational biologist and visiting professor at the University of Oxford who has researched Turing's later work and life.
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They argue often, about the symbolism of tango dancing, or which rug would look best in their living room, or whether God exists (she's Jewish, he's an atheist).
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As a lifelong atheist, I've never considered the principal difference between my value system and that of religious people to be my belief that existence ends with death.
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Many Redoubt residents are evangelical or fundamentalist Catholic; some are Mormon, or atheist, or just don't think it's any of your business what or who they believe in.
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For some who were atheist, or practice paganism, being in a relationship with multiple people can seem even more unpalatable to people outside their religious or poly communities.
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The verdict comes as the Muslim-majority nation suffers a surge in militant violence in which atheist bloggers, academics, religious minorities and foreign aid workers have been killed.
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China says the tradition must continue and its officially atheist Communist leaders have the right to approve the Dalai Lama's successor, as a legacy inherited from China's emperors.
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A self-proclaimed atheist from a Jewish family, he sees himself as an outsider, and develops a relationship with a young woman who feels similarly outside the norm.
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"I'm almost an atheist" reveals his curiosity, his hesitation, his willingness to open his mind beyond what he knew, and his drive to keep searching for the truth.
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The ruling and officially atheist Communist Party has increased efforts to curb the influence of Christianity, tightening restrictions on faith classes and warning against the religion's "Western" ideas.
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The verdict comes as the Muslim-majority nation suffers a surge in militant violence in which atheist bloggers, academics, religious minorities, and foreign aid workers have been killed.
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An Atheist in southern Russia is facing up to a year in jail for denying the existence of God in an angry Internet exchange on a local website.
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State prosecutors claimed Lim entered North Korea more than 100 times under the "false pretense" of humanitarian aid, but instead tried to use religion to overthrow the atheist regime.
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What of the evidence that the plaintiffs (Jewish and atheist residents of the town) saw themselves treated as "second-class citizens" and felt coerced to join in the supplications?
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He wears a white robe with "Chinese pilgrimage to Mecca" stitched in green Arabic letters below a Chinese flag embroidered in red, the symbol of an atheist party-state.
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"God is an atheist, Dr. Shuman," announced the AI. The lights in the AI base and in the servers began dimming until it was totally black in mission control.
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That is because in many parts of the officially atheist country, religious restrictions make it a crime to operate Islamic schools and bar people under 18 from entering mosques.
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Hicks, a paralegal student at Durham Technical Community College since 2012, had portrayed himself on Facebook as an atheist and filled his social media page with anti-religion posts.
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Boghossian (a professor at Portland State University) and Lindsay (who has a PhD in mathematics and works outside the academy) were both involved in the atheist-skeptic writing community.
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Indeed, 74% of respondents say they'd consider voting for a gay or lesbian candidate; 60% said they could back a Muslim and 20163% say they could back an atheist.
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Secular nationalists in Albania, which was strictly atheist under communism, bristle at seeing their parliament dwarfed by a mosque, and urban planners complain about the project's bland, "McOttoman" design.
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They think it's funny that I'm an African American atheist comedian, and they say to me, "You couldn't have a following" because eighty-seven percent of blacks are religious.
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" And if your Republican son announces that he's going to marry a Democrat, you think, "You want us to accept an America-hating atheist as our daughter-in-law?
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In the same time period, the percentage of religiously unaffiliated voters -- voters who identify as atheist, agnostic, or as not having a religion -- has risen from 11% to 17%.
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Kim Hak-song was also ordained as an evangelical Christian pastor affiliated with the Oriental Mission Church in Los Angeles, which could have presented problems in the atheist country.
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One mate lost his virginity, another broke down and confessed (very emotionally) to being an atheist, and at one point my lighter quite spontaneously blew up in my face.
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In it were two lists, ostensibly of people the conspirators wanted dead, reportedly including Veerabhadra Chennamalla, a liberal-minded Hindu priest, and K.S. Bhagavan, an outspokenly atheist Shakespeare scholar.
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If you were a complete atheist, or a Buddhist, or a Muslim, or whatever, you have freedom in this country to worship God and you can't be forced otherwise.
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An atheist, he challenged the monopoly that India's upper castes had on politics and what he described as the elitism of the country's founding party, the Indian National Congress.
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He has said he is no longer an atheist and he changed Facebook's charter to allow him to maintain control in the hypothetical event he runs for office. Yep.
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Yeung, whose Hong Kong diocese has for decades served as a free Catholic beachhead on the edge of an officially atheist China, said he had not seen the details.
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But critics have questioned why the church, historically a defender of human rights and Christian values, would willingly join forces the increasingly authoritarian Chinese government, which is officially atheist.
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According to an article in Foreign Policy magazine, nearly 60 percent of the high-school students end up in religious schools, despite coming from the world's largest atheist state.
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