How can a man who calls himself a believer support the Mecca of atheism?
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But it will be a gentle repudiation of the militant atheism that characterizes many Objectivists.
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And somewhere in their souls, men like Fu still believe in the ultimate triumph of atheism.
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What is left, once these attacks are dismissed, is a critique of Mr Dawkins's proselytising atheism.
He is scathing about those who suggest his illness might lead him to retract his atheism.
He is indeed, and Cuba did indeed in 1992 drop the commitment to atheism written into its constitution.
Despite the title, her latest book is not so much a case for God as a case against atheism.
In doing so, he is despite his own atheism following a Protestant tradition of interpreting the Bible in an autobiographical light.
No dogma underpinned this, neither atheism, nor republicanism, nor any theory of aesthetics.
In evidence, the head teacher said he had been referring to his atheism.
When a champion for atheism appeared, multitudes came out of the woodwork to embrace her as their Joan of Arc.
Because of Russia's history of official atheism and anti-Semitism, there are few countries where Jewish-Christian relations present so many paradoxes.
The draft constitution enshrines freedom of religious practice but not freedom of conscience, suggesting that atheism might be deemed illegal.
The country was officially atheist until the 1990s when the constitution was amended, and references to atheism were replaced with secularism.
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Atheism, or more precisely anti-Brahminism, is the religion of the political parties which have governed Tamil Nadu for over 30 years.
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Even today, and even in secular western Europe, the bald and confident atheism and materialism of Diderot and Holbach seems mildly shocking.
At the nation's heart is a tentatively beating, market-based economy, and keeping it alive puts every other goal--even mass atheism--in distant second place.
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Mr Robertson said he could have written a better case for atheism and described most of the arguments as "sixth form schoolboy variety".
But for Mr el Mahdi, and some of his colleagues, secularism is akin to atheism, and self-determination equals secession which is no less sacrilegious.
Out of 57 countries in a WIN-Gallup global survey on faith and atheism, Ireland ranked 43rd in terms of the population considering itself religious.
He had meant what he said on that awful day in 1980: it was atheism he hated, not the apparatus of the communist state.
But she argues that modern atheism is as one-dimensional and transient a phenomenon as the modern varieties of theism (including fundamentalism) to which it responds.
Professions of atheism, casual dress at work and drinking are verboten.
Yuri Sinelshchikov, a Communist MP and former prosecutor, warned that it could provoke "an outburst of combative atheism, in its most aggressive form, and enmity between believers and non-believers".
On Twitter, one person claimed that atheism was certain to rise in Brazil now that the Pope was from Argentina, while another said it would certainly boost the evangelical church.
Communism and its concordant atheism remain the state religion.
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But, with its powerful and wide-ranging arguments against theism of all kinds, Mr Harbour's short book, nevertheless, makes what may be the most powerful case available to the widely held but strangely silent creed of atheism.
By contrast, after nearly five generations of state atheism and with the Russian Orthodox Church deeply compromised by its cooperation with the totalitarian regime, faith can hardly be expected to provide inspiration for the remaking of Russia.
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These things occurred, said Admiral Massera, because there was a war on: ostensibly against the mindlessly violent Montoneros guerrillas, but also against everything he felt they represented, atheism, leftism, nihilism and the destruction of Western Christian civilisation.
Not everyone is happy with this proposal: the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II, is reported to be against the idea of using music he believes many people still associate with repression and state-imposed atheism.
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