His latest book, "The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism among the Primates, " will be published by Norton on Monday.
The atheist group was asked by the UCL union to remove it, but refused and started a petition defending its freedom of expression.
He also mentioned the atheist Professor Richard Dawkins, whose comments about the Earth's diversity Dr Williams said reflected the feeling of the Spanish saint, St John.
Christians are invariably defensive because any topic they broach or respond to gets hammered by atheists as the atheist population grows and the Christian population shrinks within that community.
At this point one of two things tends to happen: either the atheist remains in the clique that inflates their superiority complex and the atheist eventually loses interest in the movement, or the atheist learns a thing or two about how to properly address theist claims in more than just canned or general terms.
He has started his own blog, The Joyful Atheist, to further explore questions of religion, reason and science.
This is not the bold, humorless laugh of the triumphant atheist, who conquers what he calls death and his own fear of it.
Muto did get a book deal out of the experience, though, and "An Atheist in the Foxhole" (Dutton) is being released Tuesday.
Granted, the proportion of Americans who say they might vote for an atheist has doubled in the past half-century, and the polls are muddied by those who do not know what an atheist is.
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Paddy Power says it has also drawn 20 bets at 1, 000-1 that U2 singer Bono will be the next pope, and another five on Richard Dawkins, the famously outspoken atheist and scientist, at an ominous 666-1.
Hitchens, one of our great political pugilists, delivers the best of the recent rash of atheist manifestos.
"An Atheist in the Foxhole" mixes work anecdotes with the story of the uncomfortable hours before he was led out of Fox's office.
"Robbie stepped aside because he signed up as president to organise events and run a student society, " said Michael Paynter, secretary for the National Federation of Atheist, Humanist and Secular Student Societies.
Bolstered by this, they crank up the dismissiveness and vitriol with the knowledge that all their atheist friends have their back.
While Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist thinkers have spoken in the slot, secular or atheist viewpoints have not been used.
The campaign, which will also feature on the Tube, is backed by the British Humanist Association and prominent atheist, Professor Richard Dawkins.
While the United States widely celebrates Christmas, China is largely non-religious, with over 60% of the population considering themselves agnostic or atheist.
Prominent atheist Prof Dawkins and the former Archbishop of Canterbury will discuss whether "religion has no place in the 21st Century" on Thursday.
Frustrated that managers looked the other way, he started an atheist and agnostic group at work.
During a interview with atheist author Richard Dawkins, the presenter also used the term "religious hogwash" when introducing the story of Genesis.
The publication of his 2007 book God Is Not Great made him a major celebrity in his adopted homeland of the United States, and he happily took on the role of the country's best-known atheist.
Reddit is only one place on the internet, but for this traditionally atheist bastion of internet memeism to praise one of its traditional enemies signifies that Pope Francis is already enjoying some success changing the image of the Catholic Church.
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In March, the National Secular Society, which aims to restrict the role of religion in public life, wrote to Chief Scout Bear Grylls, complaining that atheist children were being excluded or having to lie to join the movement.
The journey from very devout Catholic to outspoken atheist took about six months total.
While Ryan was an atheist and a strident capitalist in the vein of John Galt, Comstock is a religious figure and an ultra-nationalist.
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In recent years religious ideas have increasingly impinged on public life in ways unacceptable to New Atheist rationalism, from arguments over the teaching of "intelligent design" in schools to gay marriage and restrictions on embryonic stem cell research.
Likewise, a Catholic bishop might consider it a badge of honor to get an idea about religious education from the North American Jewish Day School Conference, or an insight into the broader culture from a novel written by an atheist.
He identified himself as an activist, a card-carrying atheist, and he proceeded to point out the errors of my logic.
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