That atheist.

I'm an atheist.

Henry Drummond, atheist!

This is called Atheist.

I am an atheist.

'Agnostic,' retorted Aveling, was simply 'atheist' writ respectable, and 'atheist' was simply 'agnostic' writ aggressive.

In practice, what is an atheist?

The atheist who believes in God.

Don't start your damned atheist morbidness again.

Buddhist, of course, looks very, very similar to Atheist.

I'm not an atheist. I do believe in God.

I don't personally have enough faith to be an atheist.

I think the best of the available alternatives for atheist is simply non theist.

I was the black atheist kid in the all white Catholic school run by nuns.

I was the black atheist kid in the all white Catholic school run by nuns.

The scales here are religiosity from zero percent, or atheist, to 100 percent, Bible literally true.

30. Mr. Chernichenko mentioned that it was important to take into account those minorities who were atheist.

Non theist will do for all that, yet unlike atheist, it doesn't have the same phobic, hysterical responses.

Natalie Angier wrote a rather sad piece in the New Yorker, saying how lonely she felt as an atheist.

Darwin said, I have never been an atheist in the same sense of denying the existence of a God.

But if we did achieve it with that dread word atheist itself the political impact would be even greater.

She said he never thought of God, never talked about God, didn't believe in God. He was an atheist.

And afterward, she said, You know, I'm an atheist, but I know that there's something up there higher than we are.

An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf.

Critical mass may be harder to achieve with the word atheist than with the word non theist, or some other non confrontational word.

Nevertheless, it's an undeniable fact that to own up to being an atheist is tantamount to introducing yourself as Mr. Hitler or Miss Beelzebub.

But we don't bother to say so, and this is why my friend uses tooth fairy agnostic as a label for what most people would call atheist.

It doesn't matter what your religion is even if you're an atheist, you don't raise your kid telling him, you know, Make sure you lie three times a day.

This dynamic extends even to officially atheist China. Orthodox Communism, a perfect secular simulacrum of religion, has been the primary victim of development since China launched its market reforms in 1979.

But I should say that my background my father was, you know, raised to be an Episcopalian and Republican, but after one year of college, he became an atheist and a Democrat.

I suspect that the word atheist itself contains or remains a stumbling block far out of proportion to what it actually means, and a stumbling block to people who otherwise might be happy to out themselves.

He won't call himself an atheist because it's, in principle, impossible to prove a negative, but agnostic on its own might suggest that God's existence was therefore on equal terms of likelihood as his non existence.

Where the atheist assault is often correct is in pinpointing the amount of harm frequently done in our world by such fundamentalists. Right wing American attitudes about their country s place in the world are invigorated by fundamentalist dogma.

Aveling was a militant atheist who failed to persuade Darwin to accept the dedication of his book on atheism incidentally, giving rise to a fascinating myth that Karl Marx tried to dedicate Das Kapital to Darwin, which he didn't. It was actually Edward Aveling.

The military reacted by portraying the party and its supporters as an atheist force of evil which had to be annihilated. The resulting carnage was deliberate, systematic, and spanned the country, with the most horrific and intense violence in Central and East Java, Bali, and northern Sumatra.

In the 1920 s and 1930 s, Germany s traditional Christian values and culture had collapsed under the attack of two atheist ideologies communism and Nazism. Both destroyed the Weimar Republic, acting as a kind of evil twins who hated each other, yet shared a common hatred of Christianity and democracy.

And, with such a target, it is not very difficult to poke holes and pile on the ridicule. Leave aside the fact that you can make an even stronger case against Godlessness remember the atrocities of atheist totalitarians in the twentieth century and consider the assault on those whose commitment to literal interpretations of religious texts means that they deny science and reason.