Let's talk about the sixth strain of atheism you look at—atheism without any faith in progress.
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John Gray is a British philosopher whose latest book, Seven Types of Atheism, explores the history of atheism.
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" His definition of atheism defies that of contemporary atheism, where one adopts—oftentimes without question—the singular creed that "there is no God.
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So what does atheism have to do with conspiracy theory?
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Around 2008, YouTube Atheism coalesced into one of the first
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What is the constituency for this new brand of atheism?
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ISIS claimed responsibility for Siddique's death, accusing him of atheism.
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According to Knight, a newcomer once gave a talk about his atheism at a meeting where he was swiftly accused of "sending people out to die," which is how fundamentalists interpret atheism in AA recovery.
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Most forms of organized atheism are attempts to fashion God surrogates.
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Everybody's obsessed with atheism and abortion and stupid stuff like that.
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My work deals with atheism, death, competition, bonding, density, and utopia.
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In 2014 Saudi Arabia passed a law equating atheism with terrorism.
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A scholar of atheism deals with his young daughter's budding religiosity.
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Richard Spencer's atheism would win him no friends in this audience.
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Really, "BoJack" is making a kind of moral argument from atheism.
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There's a third kind of atheism you identify—faith in science.
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And on top of all that, he's been distancing himself from atheism.
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But /r/atheism is active, and one of the best-known subreddits.
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But it was /r/atheism which prompted a degree of soul-searching.
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Too many forms of atheism have functioned like monotheisms by another method.
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This could be because younger people feel less anxious about their atheism.
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Atheism is not a belief system but a repudiation of belief systems.
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Though, admittedly, my drug problems caused bigger family fights than my atheism.
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You had two schools: religion, or spirituality if you like, or atheism.
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Their talking point was clear: Jefferson's atheism disqualified him from the presidency.
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I lost my faith during this time, descending into a cold atheism.
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So these last two are the kinds of atheism you most admire?
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It's to distinguish it from the modern incarnation of atheism, which was promulgated by people like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens that really made the central aspect of atheism the question of whether one did or didn't believe.
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Many who describe themselves as agnostics fall within the larger category of atheism.
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It's in an atheism that possibly contributed to ideas of them being difficult.
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The charges once lobbed against Christians — atheism, superstition — were turned against pagan people.
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" She explained, "I cannot engage with an atheism that does not express itself.
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He chooses not to communicate with them often to avoid discussing his atheism.
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I understand why you've been reluctant to be open up about your atheism.
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He is from the tradition of liberation theology, contrary to Mr. Coates's atheism.
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VICE: You're quite hard on the new atheism of Richard Dawkins and others.
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The other really widespread way of doing atheism these days is secular humanism.
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Is it fair to say this is the most vigorous kind of atheism?
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In fact, the entire thread below the original comment about /r/atheism is telling.
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He was politically radical, with fervent convictions about social justice, atheism, vegetarianism and nonviolence.
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The trip led Mr. Taunton to wonder if Mr. Hitchens was reconsidering his atheism.
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The chair in atheism is the fifth he has added so far, she said.
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Some believers, meanwhile, use atheism to discredit anyone with whom they do not agree.
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A similar argument runs through all these later books, including Seven Types of Atheism.
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He even posted earlier that he had become religious after a life of atheism.
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"Her faith is important to her, and my atheism is not important to me."
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We have been here before, in this world of a deformed and contradictory atheism.
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What atheism has never seemed to me is a sensible point of political organization.
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But when I discussed this with James Croft—a humanist community organizer who has also been deeply engaged in movement and online atheism for many years as a speaker and blogger—he emphasized that Spencer's atheism is a central component of his worldview.
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Surely the supposed ultra-enlightened intelligence of forum atheism is at odds with crackpot conspiracies?
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Five articles were shared directly to Reddit, in subreddits like /r/TwoXChromosomes and /r/atheism.
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I feel like I'm in a war, in a war to stop this atheism garbage!!!
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Similarly, we're not taking an advocacy position when we teach about atheism or secular ethics.
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If you squint, anything—from atheism to a gluten-free diet—can look like religion.
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"They will kill me because I fled and because I announced my atheism," she said.
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But some camps cater to more niche interests, such as neuroscience, outer space or even atheism.
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But we felt like it was more socially responsible to present atheism as a positive decision.
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Atheism itself is not illegal in Egypt; instead Mr al-Banna was charged with insulting religion.
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Atheism probably wouldn't hurt him in a local race; Silicon Valley isn't exactly the Bible Belt.
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Barack Obama did not repudiate Roe v Wade; George W. Bush never endorsed Richard Dawkins's atheism.
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That he avows atheism, as opposed to agnosticism, does not strike him as presumptuous or arrogant.
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Some types of mystical religion come close to atheism in their understanding of God as unimaginable.
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Militant group Islamic State claimed responsibility for the killing, accusing him of issuing a "call to atheism".
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Gervais's experience studying the stigma around atheism the world over made him suspect these numbers are wrong.
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"It is unlikely that a genuinely invalid method would track self-reported atheism this precisely," they write.
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It's the story of a man driven to madness (and potential atheism) following his daughter's gruesome murder.
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There are so many '-isms' calling for their attention and for their loyalty — individualism, atheism, materialism, extremism.
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AZ: Simone Weil used to say that atheism is necessarily the new religion because it purifies religion.
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Since leaving S.N.L., she has embarked on a career of public speaking, discussing her conversion to atheism.
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"For 80 years, the country was living with the ideology of God-fighting and atheism," she explained.
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Hägglund is a deconstructionist; his second book, " Radical Atheism " (2008), was about the work of Jacques Derrida.
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Given the novel's astonishingly raw atheism, how are we to read the "religious" renunciation of its ending?
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Let me go further: Atheism has never seemed to me to solve any political problems at all.
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These would cure kids of their godless atheism by promoting "nonsectarian," that is, approximately American Protestant, beliefs.
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For some of us, our atheism is central to our self-identity and drives what we do.
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A statement from ISIS blamed the deceased professor of "calling to atheism," but the family refutes the claim.
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But in an age of atheism and intermarriage, what is that soul, and how best to protect it?
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Getting to be part of the tradition of handing down atheism is what I set out to do.
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Despite the great risks associated with religious doubt in the Islamic world, curiosity about atheism seems to thrive.
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They are also failing to show that atheism does not necessarily lead to an oppositional attitude between peoples.
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Kelley's atheism has been presented as a possible motive even in mainstream outlets like The New York Times.
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But unfortunately, when we mention atheism or we discuss it, it's almost like we're speaking a foreign language.
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I said I wanted God and even though my mother leaned toward atheism herself, she did not interfere.
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Matthew W. Wilson, a friend of the couple who was ordained by the First Church of Atheism, officiated.
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I'm still an activist, but after nearly a decade of active participation in online atheism (a loose community of forums, blogs, YouTube channels, and fandoms of figures like evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and writer Sam Harris), I mostly stepped away from the online side of atheism a few years ago.
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The air felt charged with an electric optimism, and no topic was off-limits, from atheism to the erotic.
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CFI's meetings attract popular speakers and have contributed to making Krauss one of the public faces of scientific atheism.
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It's because Obama pushed religion out of the Oval Office and robbed "New Atheism" of its counter-cultural capital.
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Percy Shelley penned a poem that became his declaration of atheism; Mont Blanc as the antithesis of Mount Sinai.
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Long legal battle The initial charges against Fayadh included insulting the Prophet Mohammed, mocking the Quran and spreading atheism.
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Atheism has been the only tool I've found to combat the fear of hell that still haunts my dreams.
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Before we get too far into the philosophical weeds, a reminder: Atheism and agnosticism are not opposing belief systems.
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Indeed, the charge of atheism became a convenient means of discrediting nontheological beliefs, including anarchism, radicalism, socialism, and feminism.
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Instead of comforting people with the good news of Jesus, he'd preach secular humanism, a kinder cousin of atheism.
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Ronald Reagan was a professed "admirer" of Rand but embraced religion—a stark violation of Rand's hardline atheism. Ted
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Gray has written a new book called Seven Types of Atheism, revealing the surprising variety of perspectives among irreligionists.
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The bit, touching on his atheism and aversion to religion, actually caused almost half of his audience to walk out.
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In the current polarizing moment, religion and politics seem closely aligned: Christianity on the right and atheism on the left.
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The one thing I do believe is that of all the possible views of God, atheism is the least plausible.
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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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In other words, one of the paradoxes of contemporary atheism is that it's a flight from a genuinely godless world.
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The auction company says other letters talked about Lee&aposs Southern heritage; her father; and Christianity and her apparent atheism.
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All at once, despite a lifetime of hardline atheism, he became convinced that a higher power had been at work.
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According to Google Trends, all of the seven countries most interested in the term "atheism" are in the Middle East.
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Given these concerns, it's not surprising that areas of online atheism increasingly seem to be overlapping with the alt-right.
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By neglecting to address its darker currents, online atheism has perhaps unknowingly planted the seeds for the alt-right's harvest.
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Others are writing about controversial subjects like sexuality and atheism, or exhuming painful historical episodes that were previously off limits.
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My subconscious plays a trick on me and I mutter a prayer that, due to my atheism, I retract immediately.
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Atheism tells you, by definition, what someone doesn't believe: They don't believe in the supernatural, they don't believe in God.
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Its continuum of orthodoxy slides between animism, Taoism, Maoist atheism and the quasi capitalism of its favorite son, Deng Xiaoping.
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Suppose they objected if you put up a rainbow flag on your home or wore a T-shirt defending atheism.
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Some folks react to this sort of heavily mandated faith with an utter rejection, a drift toward atheism, or both.
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I didn't think so, but for a while there, I kept my atheism on the down low just in case.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton's agnosticism and Ernestine Rose's atheism were held against the early suffragists, and after eight allegedly godless anarchists were convicted of killing eleven people during Chicago's Haymarket affair and President William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist who had rejected Catholic teachings, atheism became linked, in the popular imagination, with domestic terrorism.
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The creator of the Lord of the Rings stories was a lifelong Roman Catholic, while Lewis switched from atheism to Anglicanism.
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Kelley's history of domestic abuse, his atheism, and his aggressive and solitary personality have been cited by a variety of networks.
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Under his leadership the Russian language and enforced atheism were replaced by Uzbek and a strict, state-controlled version of Islam.
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In fact, some of the resemblances Gray claims to see between Christianity and various types of atheism are less than compelling.
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For example, the Iranian regime declared "war on un-Islamic thought" and Egypt's government recently introduced legislation that would outlaw atheism.
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Indeed, Mr. Spearman had already been asking himself questions since drifting from his Baptist upbringing toward atheism and trying out meditation.
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This, apparently, shocked Ye—"blew his mind," according to O'Brien—who couldn't fathom the sweeping atheism of the British Creative Class.
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The legislation being considered in some states does not include classes for any of the other major religions or for atheism.
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Ismail has been threatened with violence on social media, branded as Islamophobic for speaking out against extremism and accused of atheism.
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Last year, the United States Supreme Court declined to review a nonprofit group's lawsuit that claimed that those standards promote atheism.
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"They will kill me because I fled and because I announced my atheism," she said of her family in Saudi Arabia.
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Raised Catholic, he rejected all things religious in his teens, and part of our initial bond had been a mutual atheism.
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Atheism/Non-religious (20053%) A decent percentage of participants don't want metal to be defined by ideologies that just aren't metal.
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The main body of his work is picaresque, very funny, and you can smell the kind of defiant atheism in his poems.
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Will Gervais, a University of Kentucky psychologist who studies perception of religious belief and atheism, points out some limitations of this work.
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Though Christian teaching is at the heart of the Western academic tradition, atheism has long been the new gospel for many intellectuals.
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High, in that there's a surprisingly realistic and mature look at atheism and how we discuss spiritual issues in the public square.
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During the nearly 40-minute interview on HBO's "Real Time," Maher grilled Obama on marijuana, the media, genetically modified organisms and atheism.
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For conservatives unwilling to blame the widespread availability of deadly weapons for this latest massacre, atheism may seem like a convenient scapegoat.
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But some of it is a real, if eclectic, spiritual practice, adopted by people skeptical of organized religion but unfulfilled by atheism.
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It is hard to fathom the justices being nearly as accommodating with a publicly funded monument to atheism or a Wiccan pentagram.
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Over the weekend, Rezaul Karim Siddique, 58, a Bangladeshi English professor was hacked to death in northwestern Bangladesh, supposedly for his "atheism.".
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He was arrested for atheism, and he died of a knife to the face in a drunken tavern brawl at age 29.
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"Origin" grows out of questions raised by scientists who adopt atheism in a world where strict creationism has less and less relevance.
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"It started when imams in Aden mosques talked about us publicly, called us infidels and accused us of spreading atheism," said Ali.
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" Ayer retained his atheism, but declared that the experience had "slightly weakened" his conviction that death "will be the end of me.
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Perhaps atheism is as trivial as not keeping a stamp collection, but the atheists who come to Reason Rally don't believe it.
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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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You don't have to stop being a Christian if you're not able to embrace atheism, agnosticism, or some other form of nonedom.
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Well, it's a radical kind of atheism that asserts that the nature of reality is ineffable—it can't be embodied in words.
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True, they were funny about it, and Killer Mike added some give to the hard beats by sounding preacherly even when advocating atheism.
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New Atheism is a literary movement that sprung up in 2004, led by prominent authors like Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens.
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Meanwhile, even among those dreaded communist Slavs, whose official ideology was atheism, some strange manoeuvres were made involving nationalism, religion and clerical politics.
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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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There is simply no truth to the rumor that he was "shaky in his atheism" toward the end of his tragically short life.
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Indeed, Locke's toleration made place for the three major monotheistic religions but saw no place for atheism, because it lacked a transcendent authority.
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Over all, we're clearly becoming a more tolerant nation, one in which people have increasingly positive views of others' religious beliefs, including atheism.
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I've been critical of a lot of big institutions over the years, including much of religion, but also a lot of organized atheism.
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For Francis, all fundamentalism — whether Christian or Muslim or nativist — is atheism, and all violence in the name of religion is simply nonsensical.
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Ms. Dilling wrote that the federation supported "full 'academic freedom' to teach anything, including socialism, communism or atheism," according to the blog post.
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It might be tempting to attribute this to Chinese state policy aimed at suppressing religious sentiment in general and promoting communist-style atheism.
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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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The Golden Globes, aka the Oscars if everyone was drunk and being lectured about atheism by a British guy, kick off at 8pm tonight.
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The same Christian woman who respects my atheism and has vowed not to give me a religious funeral if I should die before her.
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After generations of secularisation, not to mention decades of official atheism in the formerly communist east (which includes Wittenberg), Germans are not particularly religious.
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Thanks to WikiLeaks, we now know that the DNC was partial toward Hillary Clinton -- it even considered using rumors of atheism against Bernie Sanders.
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As recently as 2007, the share of people who said they would be put off by a candidate's atheism was higher (403%) than now.
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Nick Fish, national program director of American Atheists, tells Refinery29 that atheism is about as "none" as you can get in terms of belief.
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Such men—and almost all the atheists in Gray's book are men—would not recognize the hopeful atheism that is all the rage today.
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The video, deleted on Tuesday, warned that "all forms of extremism and perversion are unacceptable," and listed feminism, atheism, and homosexuality as extremist pursuits.
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He's not doing so out of spite or atheism, nor is he denying that religion can serve a beneficial role in many people's lives.
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My wife thinks that it's mostly harmless for me to attend church and that revealing my atheism is not worth the trouble it'd cause.
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This is an atheism that knows how to engage with some of the ambitions of religion but has nothing to do with the supernatural.
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In this excerpt, VICE News meets a former Muslim who fears that her family members could kill her if they found out about her atheism.
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"IF THERE is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion," Edmond de Goncourt, a French writer, once said.
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"From the root of atheism stems the evil weed of communism," the Catholic congressman Louis Rabaut declared, on the floor of the House of Representatives.
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Riley and the more strident fundamentalists, however, associated evolution with last-days atheism, and they made it their mission to purge it from the schoolroom.
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" Along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens, Dennett is often cited as one of the "four horsemen of the New Atheism.
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Although it is not fully fleshed out, Mr Ryrie airs the helpful idea that western European atheism has evolved from suspicion to anger to anxiety.
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It has spawned parody subreddits like /r/AdviceAtheists and /r/aaaaaatheismmmmmmmmmm, along with the infamous Faces of Atheism and "In this moment I am euphoric" memes.
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The Golden Globes, aka the Oscars if everyone was drunk and being lectured about atheism by a British guy, kick off at 8:00 pm tonight.
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The Clergy Project is an online support group that exists for former religious professionals who have found a better fit for their spiritual selves with atheism.
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In a recent tweet he posited that "Capitalism + atheism + feminism = sterility = migration", and noted that the leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Italy are all childless.
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After diving into atheism (he called himself a "hooraytheist") Holmes found new spiritual life by taking "magic mushrooms," aka psychedelic psilocybin, and studying myths and mysticism.
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Atheists who do not explicitly disavow this brand of atheism aren't just missing an important opportunity to distinguish our community from Spencer's dehumanizing ideas and actions.
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In "House of Names," the Olympian gods are absent from the action, and the resulting atmosphere of atheism can give the book a crisp, modern edge.
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Others have raised concern about human rights in a country where women cannot drive and where atheism is a crime sometimes punished with a public caning.
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This area has a large population of minority ethnic groups such as Uyghurs and Kazakhs, who practice Islam, which conflicts with the Communist Party's state atheism.
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Ansar Bangla is another extremist group active in Bangladesh that has frequently claimed responsibility for killing bloggers or secular academics for their alleged advocation of atheism.
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"Atheism is not a core, strong thing for me, so attending church and praying is something that I do with her and I respect," he said.
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The Thread RE: BEYOND UNBELIEF Mark Oppenheimer profiled Bart Campolo, the son of a famous evangelical pastor and a rising star in the world of atheism.
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Although he writes as a scholar, he introduces himself as a theist—indeed, a part-time Anglican minister—but one with a "soft spot for atheism".
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I would say that generally in a European context the religious voices have been the friendlier ones, because they've had to reconcile themselves with mass atheism.
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It was probably the Amazing Randi who gave New Atheists their favorite bit of cleverness: Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
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Ansar Bangla is another extremist group active in Bangladesh who have frequently claimed responsibility for killing bloggers or secular academics for their alleged advocation of atheism.
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You can hold a lot of different opinions on the economy, on Trump, on same-sex marriage, on atheism, and still be part of this community.
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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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His enthusiasm for free thinking set him on the path to atheism, though he did not travel as far down it as his friend David Hume did.
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A lot of people in our country had to go through lessons of atheism, and if you were religious, then you would be persecuted because of that.
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Reddit user Laverabe, an archetypal redditor of his day—interested in Linux, marijuana, atheism, and his pet cat—started the /r/Scholar subreddit in June of 2009.
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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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Having been thrown out of Oxford for his atheism and disowned by his father, Shelley had sought out William Godwin, his intellectual hero, as a surrogate father.
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To hear Christians tell it, one would think "atheism" is some strange new cult that involves painting oneself green and ritualistically sacrificing little Cindy Lou Who's toys.
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In one email, the DNC's chief financial officer wonders whether launching a smear campaign against Sanders' alleged atheism could hurt his chances in the southern state primaries.
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Feature The son of a famous pastor, Bart Campolo is now a rising star of atheism — using the skills he learned in the world he left behind.
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Twenty years ago, you could have easily lumped me in with the Ricky Gervais types who lord their atheism over people like they got into fucking MENSA.
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Islamic State claimed responsibility for the killing of the professor for "calling to atheism", the U.S.-based SITE monitoring service said quoting the militant group's Amaq Agency.
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And I suppose I'm interested in the kind of atheism that starts with the assumption that of course God doesn't exist, we made him up, that's fine.
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Atheism is not just the lack of belief in higher powers or deities; it's often interwoven with antitheism, and many who identify as atheists have furious antitheist tendencies.
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Some think the September 11 attacks caused a big spike in atheism, as many people hipped to the fact that a benevolent god wouldn't allow that to happen.
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In Egypt, a 21-year-old student, Karim Ashraf Muhammad al-Banna, was sentenced to three years in prison last year after he broadcast his atheism on Facebook.
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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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Longquan has become a favorite showpiece for the ruling Communist Party, which officially promotes atheism but has led a push in recent years to revive ancient cultural traditions.
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"He was also posting a lot of non-God beliefs, atheism, a lot of gun violence and a lot of weapons that he was into," Longoria told CNN.
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Wolfe saw this as a faith-based enterprise, and many of its participants would have agreed; their dominant theology was not atheism but mysticism, in its many forms.
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He's hired a former White House photographer, he's dialed back his atheism, and he hired Obama's former campaign manager to run policy efforts for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
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Meanwhile, men looking for post-Christian enlightenment seem to gravitate toward secular-rationalist cults like the New Atheism, or more recently toward toxic forms of alt-right politics.
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It would never occur to them to renounce Islam and proclaim atheism as a new identity or mission, which would have catapulted them back into a theological narrative.
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It was only relatively recently that I understood fully the extremely negative connotations that exist around the word atheism in America, which don't exist at all in Europe.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing his atheism in hundreds of Twitter posts.
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I'm particularly annoyed by what's now called "New Atheism," and I react strongly against those who debunk the beliefs of others in a way I find bullying and shallow.
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By comparison, respondents overall had an equally unfavorable view of atheism at 38 percent, compared with 21 percent for Hinduism, 16 percent for Judaism and 8 percent for Christianity.
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Yet, Asma said, slightly bitterly, when news broke that he had been accused of promoting atheism on the internet, people did not say: How could these charges be true?
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In it, atheism, homosexuality, and feminism are labelled "extremist behaviour," the punishment for which is imprisonment and a fine, or in some cases flogging, Saudi newspaper al-Watan reported.
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Home: It was a place for manly men and womanly women, a place impervious to the temptations of strong drink and atheism, of Catholicism, of Mormonism, adultery, and feminism.
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Hägglund has no need for a parasitical relationship to the host (which, for instance, contaminates the so-called New Atheism), because he's not interested in disproving the host's existence.
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He's also been accused of sexual misconduct by three women, as David G. McAfee reports at Patheos, a website that hosts a variety of blogs on religion, spirituality, and atheism.
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That's because the opposite of Gilead's warped version of Christianity isn't atheism — it's a tight, stubborn grip on an older, kinder, more merciful understanding of a God who accepts everyone.
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" Michael Shermer, who writes about atheism and science, initially gave the book a fulsome jacket blurb: "This book should be read by every atheist and theist passionate about the truth.
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In fact, 85033 members of Congress privately admitted to members of the American Humanist Association in 2014 that they don't believe in God, yet all choose to conceal their atheism.
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That said, Svante Cornell has pointed out that the Soviet legacy of atheism left many in Central Asia with no strongly rooted religious tradition to form a counterweight to extremism.
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His father is a reverend who never lost faith after his wife's death, while Miles went the other way: His mother's death was the turning point that affirmed his atheism.
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The couple have in common their committed atheism, their hatred of the established church, and a sense of being "chosen"—by theology, by race, by similarly heroic notions of destiny.
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Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby, but half the philatelists think you'll suffer, think you'll burn, think you'll fuck and figure wrong because of it.
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The alt-right, which draws on the reflexive atheism of message board culture and dabbles in the forms of neo-paganism associated with white nationalism, has no coherent stance on religion.
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Europeans regard Islam as more threatening to their national cultures than other faiths (or indeed atheism), according to a 2013 poll by the Bertelsmann Foundation, a non-profit organisation in Germany.
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In condemning Spencer, atheists have the chance to offer a robust, humanistic alternative to alt-right atheism that affirms the worth and dignity of all people to an increasingly secular generation.
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The study of atheism and secularism is only now starting to emerge as an accepted academic field, scholars say, with its own journal, conferences, course offerings and, now, an endowed chair.
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Gray is professor emeritus of European thought at the London School of Economics, a prolific author (Seven Types of Atheism is his 22nd book), and a columnist for the New Statesman.
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He was first arrested on August 6, 2013, following claims by a Saudi man named Shaheen bin Ali Abu Mismar that he was spreading blasphemy and promoting atheism through his poetry.
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One of these statements, a long letter that she writes to Per, becomes an eloquent, scalding testament to her atheism and her faith in the known limits of our worldly existence.
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But Baruch Spinoza, another revolutionary thinker of the seventeenth century, went furthest in reconceiving the idea of God, in ways so radical that his name became a byword for dangerous atheism.
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BERNARD GOODMAN Glen Cove, N.Y. To the Editor: While I yield to no one in my scorn for religion's ability to explain the natural world, I've never considered my atheism especially important.
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Sue Prideaux, in a new biography, explains how he tried desperately to warn the rationalists who had embraced atheism that the world could not sustain the Christian slave morality without its theology.
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Murdered blogger's stepdaughter: Dad taught me to be informed, bold, unafraid War against atheism The group effectively declares war against atheist writers who dare to challenge al Qaeda's strict interpretation of Islam.
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There's no evidence that the DNC ever acted on any of this, and stressing Sanders' supposed atheism in states where atheists aren't particularly popular doesn't rise to the level of sleazy politics.
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Though the US is a mostly a Christian nation, atheism is increasing and Asian cultures, like anime and K-pop, are becoming more and more popular among Gen Z and even millennials.
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When he posted the interview on his own website, Spencer retitled it "The Alt Right and Secular Humanism," leaving no doubt that he sees atheism and humanism as linked to his cause.
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So I was happy to find an online atheist community in 2009 when I started a blog that eventually led to the publication of a book that detailed my journey to atheism.
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The difficult truth spotlighted by both Spencer's atheism and the silence of other atheists is that, despite the late Christopher Hitchens's infamous proclamation that "religion poisons everything," religion was never the problem.
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" The artist says that while most of the feedback on social media has been positive, he has received criticism for supporting books "that are sexual or secular and in favor of atheism.
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Alister McGrath's "The Twilight of Atheism" and Nick Spencer's "Atheists: The Origin of the Species" are excellent critiques; but both writers are Christians, so they have been relatively easy for unbelievers to dismiss.
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Any atheism that fails to do this will invariably miss what is most essential and enduring about religion, and probably make the mistake of smuggling religious assumptions into their secular alternative to religion.
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Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates This landmark book on race and politics in America may very well also be the quintessential text on humanism and atheism of this generation.
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To the utter shock of an audience desensitized to all things blood, guts, and abject atheism, the show transformed from one of infinite comedic cleverness, into one of equal and biting emotional intelligence.
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So, if you believe your worldview most closely aligns with atheism, agnosticism, or if you'd rather be known simply as a "none," you're free to make that a part of your spiritual identity.
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He said that more than 15 years ago, when he was chairman of the philosophy department, he and Mr. Appignani first began discussing the idea for a chair to study atheism and secularism.
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"There was great reluctance on the part of the university to have an endowed chair with the word 'atheism' in the name, and that was a deal-breaker for Lou," Mr. Siegel said.
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In The Washington Post, Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention avoided the subject of Kelley's atheism but linked the shooting—sans any firm evidence—to the persecution of the global Christian church.
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You mentioned Grace on "The Good Wife"; her embrace of God especially matters in contrast with the atheism of her mother, Alicia (a particular liability, the show made clear, for an aspiring politician).
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And the tribunal said the parents' demand for an absence of religion would not allow the children to learn about cultural and religious traditions that differed from the family's own belief in atheism.
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The paper claims that any restrictions are the result of existing regulations against Chinese Communist Party members, who must voluntarily pledge atheism, or because of regulations that forbid the religious indoctrination of minors.
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That rift has become a dangerous one in recent years, as Islamist extremist groups have carried out a campaign of killings, singling out intellectuals who have defended atheism and argued for a secular state.
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Meanwhile, those who came to atheism via the new atheists might be startled to find that many of their intellectual forebears did not wage war on religion, or even feel any distaste for it.
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If this is unclear, try this thought experiment that I often raise when I'm teaching students about the First Amendment: What would a school (private, of course) truly dedicated to promoting atheism look like?
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On the one hand, he said, it was a matter of historical justice that places of Christian worship, seized in Soviet times by the forces of "militant atheism", should be returned to their rightful owners.
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CFI is today the leading player in the US skeptic scene, with its meetings attracting popular speakers, including Krauss and the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins — who together have become the public faces of scientific atheism.
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Until atheists and humanists confront this Something head on, we will continue to struggle with people like Spencer who embody an atheism that got rid of the gods but put white men in their place.
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Maher also addressed the possibility he might launch a political career, saying he does not see the point in running for office because his atheism would most likely be a "deal breaker" in a campaign.
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A 2015 article in The New Republic reported on the spread of disbelief in the Arab world, citing over 250 web pages or groups about atheism with memberships ranging from a few hundred to thousands.
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One Chick tract is reminiscent of the 2014 indie Christian mega-hit movie God's Not Dead, in which a freshman philosophy student stands up against his professor's atheism in front of the class and wins.
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It's worth noting how the subreddit gained such a high number of subscribers to begin with: Initially, /r/atheism was included on the list of default subreddits users subscribed to automatically when they joined the site.
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Then came the beginning of the black community's 2628/28503 and Pearl Harbor — socialist ideologies that not only allowed the black family and personal responsibility to deteriorate but encouraged and accelerated the process. Socialism. Marxism. Atheism.
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Francis is traveling to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to mark their 100th anniversaries of independence and to encourage religious faith in the Baltics, which experienced five decades of Soviet-imposed religious repression and state-sponsored atheism.
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In 2015, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," about a boy with autism coming of age, was deemed unsuitable by a school in Florida because of cursing and its presentation of atheism.
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While atheism itself is on the rise (7 percent of Americans identified as atheist in 2017, up from 4 percent in 2014), those whose religious identity is "unaffiliated" or less specifically defined comprise a far broader group.
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The film is about Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who led the charge against prayer in public schools, became an activist for atheism, and was eventually kidnapped — which seems to be the part of her life being explored here.
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But the further east you travel in Europe, and the further you go into lands where state-sponsored atheism once prevailed, the more likely it becomes that religion will be treated as a matter of high politics.
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Cosmologies, in other words, can make for strange bedfellows, and some of what Gray does best in "Seven Types of Atheism" is not only to draw distinctions among atheists but to make connections between nonbelievers and believers.
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He'd swallow his atheism and head down to Texas to participate in prayer circles, he says, and once showed up to a JP Morgan conference and loudly challenged Al Mann, a billionaire whose company developed intranasal insulin.
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Related: Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Brutal Killing of Bangladeshi Professor Islamic State claimed responsibility for the killing of the professor for his "call to atheism," SITE intelligence group reported quoting the militant group's Amaq news outlet.
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The comedy, created by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka, with Rhys Thomas directing, purports to be found TV: a Romanian 1980s buddy-cop drama about two Bucharest officers fighting for truth, atheism and the Marxist-Leninist way.
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He began his career as a left-wing polemicist and ended it as a zealot for American empire and the New Atheism, animated by a dogmatism that put most of the religiously faithful he disdained to shame.
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After the Bolshevik revolution a century ago, this neo-classical fusion of bronze, marble and gold, completed in 1858 after 40 years' work, became a museum, dedicated at various times to science, atheism or simply its own history.
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Three years ago Reddit's atheism subforum, perhaps the largest community of atheists on the internet, was found to be the website's third most bigoted—meaning not just tolerant of overt displays of bigotry, but actively supportive of them.
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However, the significant rise in the Christian faith among the Chinese population over the past decade has is perceived as a threat to the power of the current regime where atheism is the official religion of the government.
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"He was always talking about how people who believe in God were stupid and trying to preach his atheism," one of his Facebook friends, Nina Rosa Nava, posted on the site, saying she unfriended him because of it.
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A couple of months before the abduction, a mob kidnapped several men affiliated with a Facebook group calling for secularism, accused them of homosexuality and atheism, and forced them to cite parts of the Quran before being released.
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I use the example of the novelist Joseph Conrad—his atheism completely rejects the idea of progress, and yet he still admires human self-assertion in the face of a kind of bleak situation that cannot be overcome.
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The segment, first noticed by the New York Times, takes place in Xinjiang, a province in Western China home to the Uighurs, a Muslim minority often at odds with China's state-endorsed atheism and their dominant ethnicity, the Hans.
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This converges, at least in part, with the concept of "faith security" which has been used by the Egyptian government to justify strict government oversight of religion, clamping down on atheism and "blasphemy" as well as ultra-pious extremism.
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"Atheisms" is a more precise concept, as the philosopher John Gray demonstrates in his new book, "Seven Types of Atheism" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), and one that could help Americans move beyond their intractable fight over the existence of God.
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When it comes to a sense of what defines a black community and what black folks do, atheism is still seen as one of the things that we aren't or that we can't be, which of course is ridiculous.
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Michael Nugent, a spokesman for the advocacy group Atheism Ireland, welcomed the referendum, saying that even in the absence of prosecutions the law was causing real damage to freedom of expression in Ireland, and to the country's reputation abroad.
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He also presented television programs on subjects ranging from influenza to atheism and created sculptures from found wood and scrap metal, one of which became the set for his revival of Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex" for Graz Opera in Austria.
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For instance, we catch a rare if fleeting glimpse of atheism, a crime in Egypt, in the person of the young doctor Abu el-Hassan, a critical thinker who begins as a religious fundamentalist and ends up rejecting religion.
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But Zeitgeist was a powerful film, and to the masses of surly teenagers who would have watched it, it would prove to be one of the first steps they would take to the pseudo-intellectual atheism that is now so prevalent.
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the state atheism it espoused, the church canonized the tsar and his family, and his popularity as a historical figure has grown amid a Russian Orthodox Church resurgence under President Vladimir Putin.
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A worrying trend, critics say The controversy is based in a conservative and hard-line approach to the scientific theory that equates evolution with atheism, according to Mustafa Akyol a fellow at the Freedom Project at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
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In his prolific output in the nearly nine years between those two pieces, Gary fearlessly and calmly entered some of the nation's most contentious debates — over religious belief and atheism, racism, politics, the morality of patriotism, the purpose of education.
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"The Blue Flower," by Penelope Fitzgerald; "Mothering Sunday," by Graham Swift; "Autumn," by Ali Smith; "Seven Types of Atheism," by John Gray; "Al-Mawloudah," by the Egyptian writer Nadia Kamel; "Red Birds," by Mohammed Hanif; "Raising Sparks," by Ariel Kahn.
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I often wonder if the Enlightenment skepticism that birthed atheism ultimately leads us to a moral abyss — and by that I don't mean to imply that people can't be moral without God, which is one of the stupidest claims I've ever heard.
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Some (including Jews and Muslims in his home state) have voiced the fear that if confirmed in his new job, he will focus on the rights of Christians instead of promoting freedom for all beliefs, including atheism, as the job supposedly requires.
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Same with the atheism plotline, which basically asks Frank to figure out how to tell everyone that there is no life outside the store, that it's misery and pain and then you die and it's over, without, you know, making their life worse.
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Mark Zuckerberg hired Obama's former campaign manager to help with philanthropy, pledged to visit all 50 states in 2017 and publicly renounced his atheism, plus Facebook has said he can take a leave for government service while retaining control of the company.
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But the longest litany of accusations were against Muhammad Ali (a pseudonym), the small business owner: According to the charge sheet, he had used a "cyber codename"—an alias, ostensibly—to run a Facebook page that posted anti-Islamic material and promoted atheism.
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He was a hero of the philosophes, partly because he was one of the last thinkers to be actively persecuted for his atheism, but also because he wrote an influential treatise on politics denying the legitimacy of censorship and advocating democratic republicanism.
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Maybe it's for these reasons—his atheism and his apparent lack of exploring what others perceive to be his cultural identity, combined with the use of phallic symbols—that audiences and critics have gravitated towards the word 'controversial' to describe his practice.
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The other proposals Mr. Putin submitted to Parliament would define Russians as the ethnic group that created the nation, assert that the country's citizens traditionally believe in God and define Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union — despite Soviet atheism.
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The benefits of its move to embrace the past may seem obvious, but the shift marks a radical departure, not just for a party officially committed to atheism but also from how reformers over the past century have imagined a modern, prosperous China.
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Like Aslan's CNN series, "Believer" — canceled in June after he wrote a foul-languaged tweet about President Trump — "God: A Human History" is aggressive atheism tempered and remodeled for the millennial age: doggedly universalistic, obligation-free and relentlessly focused on self-revelation.
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How "soccer girl" became the indisputably coolest look 7 winners and 8 losers of the 2020 Democratic debate lottery 6 things I wish people understood about atheism in America How the Trump administration is using 9/11 to build a case for war with Iran
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For some of the most influential media outlets on the right, his rumored atheism is a more salient data point than the fact that he had shown a demonstrated pattern of violence, including allegedly abusing animals, attacking his wife, and cracking his baby stepson's skull.
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Atheism, however, is not a single identity, ideology, or set of practices, and to speak of it that way is as reductive as speaking of "religion" rather than of Judaism, Buddhism, or Christianity—or, even more usefully, of Reform Judaism, Mahayana Buddhism, or Pentecostalism.
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The legacy of Soviet atheism, the lack of religious education and the threat of increased online recruitment that will accompany the government's loosening of restrictions on the internet present the government an opportunity to make its own religions tradition, free of any Middle Eastern entanglements.
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The famed neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote that pot allowed him to reconcile with his own atheism; author Lee Childs—whose Jack Reacher novels are a favorite among the Fox News set—recently admitted he's smoked every night for 44 years and writes while stoned.
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From the sublime to the ridiculous: Sausage Party — which, believe it or not, is one of the most nuanced (and dirtiest) takes on metaphysical commitments all year — positions rationalism, agnosticism, and atheism alongside a variety of unshakable theisms, all from the perspective of animated foodstuffs.
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" Speaking to /r/atheism admins in a message, they confirmed: "This is from the reddit admins: As you probably already know, on December 15 we started running all old deleted accounts through a cleanup process that (among some other things) removed the deleted accounts from subscriber lists.
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With atheists still often stigmatized and disparaged in this country, it took some persuading for the University of Miami to agree to create a chair with the word "atheism" in the title, according to Harvey Siegel, a professor of philosophy who has helped to broker the arrangement.
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" Lots of shows that aren't about religion still have That One Character Who's Christian — think April Kepner, who initially avoided premarital sex and struggled to align her Christianity with her (now ex-) husband's atheism on "Grey's Anatomy," or Grace, the teenage daughter on "The Good Wife.
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Brought up in the Dallas area by immigrant parents who had been raised amid the official atheism of the People's Republic of China, Mr. Ying tried exploring Christianity with his high school classmates, even accompanying them to megachurches, only to be put off by their fundamentalism.
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I also pushed my atheism on the crowd, noting that the US government is unlikely to fund life extension science so long as all 535 members of Congress, eight Supreme Court justices, and our president continue to publicly insist they believe in an afterlife with God.
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Ms. Stutzman herself, the court said, contradicted the argument that wedding flowers were a statement when she said in a deposition that providing flowers for a wedding between Muslims would not necessarily constitute an endorsement of Islam, nor would providing flowers for an atheist couple endorse atheism.
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Our conversation easily swerved off topic and into, say, a debate about Bill Maher's atheism, or about how "we are all individuals at the tail end of a universe expressing itself," or Timmons's rock band, which plays in the local bars under changing names like Rainbow Bridge and Dreamworld.
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Drivers in New Jersey will be able to request vanity license plates that reference their belief in atheism after the state's Motor Vehicle Commission settled a lawsuit this month filed by a woman whose request for a license plate that said "8THEIST" was rejected almost three years ago.
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What is troubling in Reason Rally, in Movement Atheism, among Dawkins and Nye, in the throngs of free thinkers turned out on a dry Saturday to hear the talk of turning points and revolutions, what is troubling in all of this is the optimism of these free thinkers.
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"Like everyone, I find his 'Do I offend you, yeah?' persona to be incredibly irritating, so I thought it would be funny to make some fake standup shots using obnoxious, banal posts I found on some of the more edgelord subbreddits (/r/atheism, /r/Im14andthisisdeep mainly)," Rousseau told Gizmodo by email.
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I didn't change anyone's mind in my family, and not that I felt like I needed to, because I really respect everyone in my family for being Catholic, but I just wanted there to be positive role models for atheism in the world, and I'm glad we got to do that.
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The first half of our conversation is political: It's about Coates's interviews with Obama, his perspective on American politics, the way his atheism informs his worldview, why he thinks a tragic outlook is important for finding the truth but, at least for nonwhite politicians, a hindrance for winning political power.
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I was moving toward the Catholic Church, from Judaism nominally, but really from belligerent atheism; and so I turned to some novelists I hadn't read before, but who, by being novelists, had the type of mind I most trusted to help me either to make the alarming leap or stay put.
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Now, that's a school I'd really like to teach at, but the fact that such a thing is almost unimaginable in today's society (while of course private schools that explicitly promote the divinity of Jesus Christ are everywhere) just goes to show how marginalized atheism really is in the United States.
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Well timed for the Iowa vote is a new poll from the Pew Research Center showing that atheism remains one of the biggest liabilities a political candidate can admit to, with fully half of Americans saying they would be less likely to vote for a nonbeliever, although that share is gradually declining.
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Despite being a mostly Christian and deeply religious country—in 2013, the WIN-Gallup International 'Religion and Atheism Index' has declared Ghana as the most religious country in the world, with 96 percent of its inhabitants declaring themselves as religious—the mixture of beliefs one can come across the country is astonishing.
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Instead, it sees the purpose of religion and spirituality as more therapeutic, a means of seeking harmony with nature and happiness in the everyday — while unlike atheism, it insists that this everyday is divinely endowed and shaped, meaningful and not random, a place where we can truly hope to be at home.
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The would-be exorcists blamed the internet and atheism for what they see as a spike in evil, but the urgency evident in the course also seemed to have something to do with a growing conservative view that the church has gone astray under Pope Francis, and that end times had drawn nigh.
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JERRY CZARNECKILa Habra, California Your reviews of John Gray's "Seven Types of Atheism" ("The valley of the shadow", November 10th) and Paul Collier's "The Future of Capitalism" ("The old ways", November 3rd), correctly identified the absence of any positive recommendation of a morality that could serve as a guide for living in the 21st century.
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While I do think LaVey's work is an excellent explication of the human animal, and my own social and political proclivities are aligned with that of the Satanic Temple, after years of atheism, I was slowly but surely headed towards theism, or the belief that there is a transcendental reality and that gods do exist.
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