Richard Dawkins on militant atheism

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Creationists, lacking any coherent scientific argument for their case, fall back on the popular phobia against atheism.

No, what I want to urge upon you instead what I want to urge upon you is militant atheism.

(d) Take all necessary measures to ensure that children may choose whether to participate in classes on religion or atheism

Darwin thought that atheism might be well and good for the intelligentsia, but that ordinary people were not, quote, ripe for it.

Now, it may sound as though I'm about to preach atheism, and I want to reassure you that that's not what I'm going to do.

And however we define atheism, it's surely the kind of academic belief that a person is entitled to hold without being vilified as an unpatriotic, unelectable non citizen.

But I think, actually, the alternative is to grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo word carrying frissons of hysterical phobia.

People like Kenneth Miller could be called a godsend to the evolution lobby because they expose the lie that evolutionism is, as a matter of fact, tantamount to atheism.

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.

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.

It has become fashionable in certain smart circles to regard atheism as a sign of superior education, of a more highly evolved civilization, of enlightenment. Recent bestsellers suggest that religious faith is really a sign of backwardness, the mark of primitives stuck in the dark ages who are yet to catch up with scientific reason.