How To Use Atheism In A Sentence
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Why do you attack biological evolution when what you are against is atheism?
Christianity Today
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As a young man he took well to the Epicurean view of freedom and independence of spirit, though this led him into the alley of atheism.
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Furthermore, I would like to chat to you about atheism in a fox-hole as you are about to be bayonetted to death or as you lie dying from cancer on your death-bed.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Their first meeting around Johnson's dinner table ended in a quarrel since Wollstonecraft disagreed with Godwin's sweeping atheism.
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And it's so emotive, which isn't much helped by Richard Dawkins rather inflaming the issue to promote atheism.
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I do think that between Lysenkoism, The Reign of Terror, Communism and otherwise, all claims that atheism or anti-theism is an essential ingredient to a better, more moral society is laughable.
Defending Your Existence
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Do what he will, let God take order with it; this leadeth kings to atheism, let them do what they please, and to take God in their own hand: in regard of laws, they teach nothing to kings but tyranny: and in regard of government, they teach a king to take an arbitrary power to himself, to do what he pleaseth without controlment.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
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Atheism is not anti-God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
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Here I want to clear one thing, that it is not vanity that has actuated me to adopt the doctrines of atheism.
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And for the assertion laid down, I desire that those who despise and reproach it would attempt an answer unto the ensuing arguments whereby it is confirmed, with those others which shall be insisted on in our description of the nature of the work of regeneration itself, and that upon such grounds and principles as are not destructive of Christian religion nor introductive of atheism, before they are too confident of their success.
Pneumatologia
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All thinking people tend to agree more with atheism than theism, even though they may not be anti-religion. Dr T.P.Chia
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The words of Father John A. Conway, S.J. (in the preface to Fr. von Hammerstein's work, "Edgar, or from Atheism to the Full Truth") may well be quoted in this connection: "Who can read the words that teem from the German
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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It is impossible to select any important part of it without soon realising that its root is firmly grounded in atheism.
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Although the term ecumenism is widely used outside Catholic circles to refer to efforts at mutual understanding among all religions, or even between religion and atheism, the Catholic Church treats relationships with non-Christians very differently, because non-Christians have a fundamentally different relationship with Catholics than do other baptized Christians.
CatholicCulture.org - What You Need to Know
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The ultimate goal is to clarify and explicate the notion of ‘Atheism,’ then spell out and defend the correct definition.
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The teaching of eternal torment has done more to drive people to atheism and insanity than any other invention of the devil.
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Not one of the city's ancient churches was left unscathed by the long years of official atheism.
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In fact, Sanskrit and Pali have a larger literature in defence of atheism, agnosticism and theological scepticism than exists in any other classical language.
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Others in turn, such as Christian theologian Alister McGrath, have used the term fundamentalism to characterize atheism as dogmatic.
Blurbomat.com
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Therefore wonder at these two when ye read the scriptures, God’s condescendency to us, and our atheism and unbelief of him: they are both mysteries, and exceeding broad.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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Hobbes and Spinoza, despite their own differences, advanced, or were read as advancing, a number of objectionable and deeply troubling theses which Leibniz (and most of his contemporaries) saw as an enormous threat: materialism, atheism, and necessitarianism.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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This vision of man, the master of his own destinies, the searcher for truth and the shaper of a better life for the only existence that he knows anything about, this reliance of _man upon man_, and without the supposed interference of any god, constitutes atheism in its broadest and true sense.
The Necessity of Atheism
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Pew studies tend to be fairly carefully done, but I get a bad feeling when "atheism" is lumped in as a religion - they clearly don't get the idea of what the null set means.
Religious change in the us
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At the root of the culture war is a conflict between theism and atheism
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Atheism, agnosticism and free thinkers are the products of rational thinking, skeptical inquiry and critical analysis, which severely put religious belief on the defensive. Dr T.P.Chia
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Atheism is not anti-God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
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Why do you attack biological evolution when what you are against is atheism?
Christianity Today
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Atheism is not anti-God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
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Nontheistic religions such as secular humanism, atheism, agnosticism and scientism are quite happy with science that seeks to remove any "supernatural" influence from its explanations.
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Russell is right, though, that 'irreligion' is a better label for Hume's position than 'atheism' it is also closer to what Hume's contemporaries meant when they called him an atheist than our own term 'atheist' is. posted by Brandon | 10:35 AM
Hume and the Natural History of Religion
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Hébert (1757-94) supported the dechristianization movement, the atheism of which Robespierre vehemently opposed.
Annotations
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My atheism isn't due to a lack of interest in God at all, but rather the opposite: a fascination with humanity.
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Put more succinctly, theism is god-belief, and atheism is its absence.
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They see economics as a product of Enlightenment rationalism, along with deism, atheism, the chaos of the French Revolution and other un-Christian aspects of the modern age.
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Belief is a spiritual fighter against theism. Atheism is a strong belief that God does not exist, and that religion corrupts the human mind. Dr T.P.Chia
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In the Atheism and Evolution articles, there's some odd "kype" coding in some recent references.
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If anything, I carry my atheism more happily for having arrived at it by a transitionally religious route.
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Atheism for Marxism is not an optional extra or a mere facet but the very essence of it.
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Since its first coming into use the term atheism has been very vaguely employed, generally as an epithet of accusation against any system that called in question the popular gods of the day.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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It is impossible to select any important part of it without soon realising that its root is firmly grounded in atheism.
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Since Dawkinsâ philosophical/theological (atheological?) writings seem, from what I have seen, to mostly be of interest to Christians (such as Dembski, who appears here to be exhorting the readers of his blog to watch a pro-atheism film⦠hm), I donât really see any particular reason to read them or really care about them much.
Dembski: God's best gift to intelligent design - The Panda's Thumb
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And since he asserts that atheism = nihilism and deism = atheism lite, then I must really be a nihilist.
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In Matzke's defense: While I've found his tone consistently (to this point, at least) off-putting, and I've been none too impressed by quite a lot of his rationales with regards to that tone when it comes to ID, this is this first time I recall him directly touching on the subject of theism/atheism itself.
A Pat on the Back for Matzke
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There were political messages, too: opposition to violence, to atheism and what he called carefree consumerism.
CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2005
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Refusing to use the term atheism might be more trouble than it's worth.
What is an Atheist?
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Among no-go topics were 'classism, biphobia, ableism, transphobia, antireligion and anti-atheism'.
The Sun
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Hector’s hectoring is a perfect argument for atheism. sd Says:
Matthew Yglesias » More on Pro-Life Incrementalism
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No matter how strenuously some may try to deny it, atheism is a belief system.
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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning. C.S. Lewis
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At best, modern atheism can be misread back into classical antiquity.
The Times Literary Supplement
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“That is why we need contemporary ‘translators’ that are capable of bringing today's science to regular people, and especially, to bring the astrophysical response to atheism,” he added.
Three priests
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Atheism is against God-based religion which is illusive, mysterious and dogmatic, and which has convinced people to believe in something that is imaginative, incomprehensive and inconceivable. Dr T.P.Chia
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Catholic France spurned him, and Jurieu, the great Reformed divine, called his cometary views "atheism," and tried hard to have Protestant Holland condemn him.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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Atheism, agnosticism and free thinkers are the products of rational thinking, skeptical inquiry and critical analysis, which severely put religious belief on the defensive. Dr T.P.Chia
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Not talking about God in the public fora is secularism, not atheism per se.
Matthew Yglesias » The New Atheism
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It's true that poor behavior can cause people to start questioning religion and that this might eventually lead them to atheism, but otherwise this strikes me as more an attempt to "psychologize" atheism - to treat it as nothing more than a psychological reaction to human beings rather than a reasoned rejection of irrationality or unfounded ideology.
About.com Agnosticism / Atheism
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A rather lukewarm description by American standards, but if you really go into a discussion with many Danes I am quite sure most will step away from both outright atheism and all-embracing religion, saying something like "Well, I am sure there is something more but ...
Dark Tales : The Lovecraft News Network
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Miller discussed and investigated the philosophical basis and long history of atheism and disbelief.
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For most Indians, religion is very much a part of their everyday lives, and the question of atheism an irrelevance.
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As a thinker he advanced from theological liberalism to deism, then pantheism and possibly to atheism.
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This would imply not only teaching the main religions, but also placing more emphasis on other thought systems that are not religious - like atheism and agnosticism.
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They seem to be very like that theism or natural religion, which Christians profess to confound with atheism or irreligion which is their exact opposite.
Emile
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Among no-go topics were 'classism, biphobia, ableism, transphobia, antireligion and anti-atheism'.
The Sun
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Chinese citizens enjoy the freedom to believe in religion and the freedom not to believe in it and to propagate atheism.
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If one wants to ignore this devotional service, there is the danger of turning to atheism.
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Atheism is rooted in science and reason, and atheists distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. (85% of the members of America's national academy of science reject God.). Dr T.P.Chia
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Belief is a spiritual fighter against theism. Atheism is a strong belief that God does not exist, and that religion corrupts the human mind. Dr T.P.Chia
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One of the things I liked about Sweeney (other than her total honesty about something so personal) is that she rejects the term atheism out of hand because it describes her lack of belief in religious terms.
Electronic Cerebrectomy
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It is impossible to select any important part of it without soon realising that its root is firmly grounded in atheism.
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That missing ‘l’ made me misread the y-axis label as something related to atheism.
And swagger.
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Chinese citizens enjoy the freedom to believe in religion and the freedom not to believe in it and to propagate atheism.
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The key terms that Hitchens uses to describe that worldview are familiar in the rhetoric of atheism: superstition, false consolation, "mind-forged manacles of servility," "stultifying pseudo-science," and of course, the blandishments of organized religion.
Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake
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The phrase faithfully depicts the atheism of an unbelieving human heart; the fool hath said in his heart, "No God.
The Parables of Our Lord
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What I hope is distinctive about this book is that it mainly concentrates on a positive case for atheism rather than on attacks on religion.
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However, I think there's more that could be said about the relation between naturalism and atheism.
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Some claim that it is simply a matter of definition; thus Nancey Murphy: "¦ there is what we might call methodological atheism, which is by definition common to all natural science" (Murphy 2001, 464).
Religion and Science
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In terms of religion, Napoleon bordered between deism and atheism.
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I can certainly understand why the Meetup group vastly more than "secular friend"-ships with peers who practice the same apatheism as their parents appeals to the guy, and I still think it's awfully harsh to laugh at him.
Philocrites: Moments in bad publicity for atheists.
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Which is to say, he gets caricatured as this far-out-there left-winger with totally unrealistic and crazy views because of the aforementioned atheism, a perspective still widely disliked and mistrusted by many Americans.
Matthew Yglesias » The Costs of Ideological Correctness
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Atheism is against God-based religion which is illusive, mysterious and dogmatic, and which has convinced people to believe in something that is imaginative, incomprehensive and inconceivable. Dr T.P.Chia
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Their atheism was based on a theory of atomism, which they were the first to propose.
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The fact is, that Machiavelli, as is usual with those against whom no crime can be proved, was suspected of and charged with atheism; and the first and last most violent opposers of _The Prince_ were both Jesuits, one of whom persuaded the Inquisition "benchè fosse tardo," to prohibit the treatise, and the other qualified the secretary of the Florentine republic as no better than a fool.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
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Evolutionary theory is no more tied to metaphysical naturalism or atheism than is meteorology or medical science.
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How atheism and agnosticism have spread in the later generations is there for everyone to see.
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Doubts and refutations were presented from the perspective of humanistic atheism and agnosticism.
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The error is the assertion that "Agnostic" is some third thing to be, an alternative to both belief and non-belief, and in fact a milder and more acceptable alternative to belief than Atheism.
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I have no argument with humanism and atheism being taught in secondary schools.
The Sun
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Atheism, agnosticism and free thinkers are the products of rational thinking, skeptical inquiry and critical analysis, which severely put religious belief on the defensive. Dr T.P.Chia
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In "Lucretius," Tennyson shows the moral apathy of materialism by letting us look on at a suicidal death, and hear the cry, half-rage and half-despair, "What is duty?" and in that fated cry, atheism has run its course.
A Hero and Some Other Folks
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I like books about atheism and infidelity and general neuroticism much more.
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When we see so many revolt from the profession of the reformed religion, to the corruptions and superstitions of Rome; and others, from a religious and sober life, to plunge themselves into all kind of lewdness and debauchery, and, it is to be feared, into atheism and infidelity; can we doubt any longer whether it be possible for
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06.
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In fact, according to the research of Phil Zuckerman, a professor of sociology at Pitzer College, In sum, countries marked by high rates of organic atheism are among the most societally healthy on earth, while societies characterized by non-existent rates of organic atheism are among the most destitute.
Born to Believe
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Belief is a spiritual fighter against theism. Atheism is a strong belief that God does not exist, and that religion corrupts the human mind. Dr T.P.Chia
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The Investiganti fought the Aristotelian philosophers, Galenic physicians, and just about every other form of traditional learning they could attack, bringing their disciples under strong suspicion of atheism between 1688 and 1697.
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Strange, that the stigma of atheism should have been affixed to a system whose very starting-point is Deity and whose great characteristic is the _ignoration_ of everything but Deity, insomuch that the pure and devout Novalis pronounced the author a God-drunken man, and
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
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I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.
Think Progress » Fox News Devastated Over Arrest Of ACORN Pimp, Says The Story Probably Needs ‘A Lot Of Context’
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I'm tired with all these liars telling me that atheism is a belief in "nonexistence" etc.
Atheist Blogs Aggregated
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There is, indeed, a kind of timorous atheism in the man who dares not trust God to render all efforts to interpret his Wordand what is criticism but interpretation?
Style.
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The law denied to the state the right to propagate atheism or otherwise to interfere in religious affairs.
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Chinese citizens enjoy the freedom to believe in religion and the freedom not to believe in it and to propagate atheism.
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As I mentioned in my last offering, I do not view agnosticism as a halfway house between Atheism and theism.
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Atheism is not anti-God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
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In The Age of Reason, Paine had arguedagainst both atheism and Christianity in favour of a deism which rejects anyappeal to divine revelation.
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I have no argument with humanism and atheism being taught in secondary schools.
The Sun
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Pain and suffering caused by natural forces has atheological implications, it does not however make it so, it just lends support to atheism.
Arguing in the Streets
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Atheism, agnosticism and free thinkers are the products of rational thinking, skeptical inquiry and critical analysis, which severely put religious belief on the defensive. Dr T.P.Chia
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But Mahayanism was pulled equally strongly in the opposite direction by the popular and mythological elements which it contained and was on the whole inclined to theism and even polytheism quite as much as to atheism and acosmism.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
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Atheism is rooted in science and reason, and atheists distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. (85% of the members of America's national academy of science reject God.). Dr T.P.Chia
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In this article, you will learn about Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the belief systems agnosticism and atheism.
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They say that one could be rational in accepting a noetic system that has atheism as its foundational presupposition, since there is no good objective evidence for God's existence.
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I have no argument with humanism and atheism being taught in secondary schools.
The Sun
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I see an error in my comment above, namely 72% philosophy faculty "lean towards" atheism while 72% of NAS members "disbelieve", and 14% of philosophy faculty "lean towards" theism while 7% of NAS members "believe".
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And since he asserts that atheism equals nihilism, and deism equals atheism lite, then I must really be a nihilist.
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From this we note that the Guardian too does not regard support for sharia law – which involves of necessity subordinating English law and liberty to principles such as condign punishment for gays and adulterers, second class status and misery for women and the death sentence for apostates (including those to the Guardian’s favourite religion, atheism) -- as extreme.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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From the perspective of Hobbes's critics the doctrines that lay at the heart of his atheism were materialism, necessitarianism, moral relativism and egoism, and scepticism concerning natural and revealed religion.
Hume on Religion
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I simply don't believe (the term for this is "apatheism" - portmanteau of "apathy" and "atheism"), and it's none of my business whether or not you do.
Diary of a Teenage Atheist
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But God gets the thumbs-down: nearly three-quarters accept or lean towards atheism.
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Atheism, agnosticism and free thinkers are the products of rational thinking, skeptical inquiry and critical analysis, which severely put religious belief on the defensive. Dr T.P.Chia
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The beauty of atheism is that the butterfly gets unpinned, and disparate organically-formed groups can find their own way.
Augustine vs. Pelagius Part Three - The Nature of God and Evil | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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He discussed the philosophy of mathematics, political philosophy where topics such as censorship are discussed, and religious philosophy where topics such as atheism, dualism and pantheism are considered.
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The chapter ends with relatively short accounts of Christianity and Islam, and a concluding section on agnosticism, atheism and secularism.
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So, in short, the things that (IMO) made Firefly bad sci fi were: too much sex, not balancing sex with other aspects of human relationships, failure to address the classic problems of the genre (such as FTL travel and terraforming), too much preachiness (for gay rights and for a "naturalistic" worldview, ie atheism), and clumsy treatment of the role of religion in human interactions and the big unanswerable questions.
June 2007
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She's troubled by her son's inclination toward atheism.
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She was, for example, one of the first to import Gassendi's revival of Epicurean atomism from France into England: unlike her counterparts, Cavendish did not feel the need to purge atomism of suspected atheism.
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The school accepts children from other religions, and teaches alternative religions and even atheism.
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Atheism is the enemy of God- based religion(s), but is accepted in some spiritual beliefs such as Hinduism and Buddhism. Dr T.P.Chia
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Jews, or Turks, or heathens: I do not think there is, but yet, for all that, we are not free from the danger of apostacy; there is great danger, not of men's apostatizing from one religion to another, but from religion to infidelity and atheism; and of this worst kind of apostacy of all other, I wish the age we live in had not afforded us too many instances.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 04.
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Aggressive atheism is sometimes attributed to me, but I think wrongly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now he is presenting nothing less than an entire history of atheism, and an impassioned argument for disbelief in all things supernatural.
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I have already addressed some of the features of what I call "atheism lite versus Christianity lite.
Bishop Pierre Whalon: Why I Am Not An Atheist
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Atheism is not anti-God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
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Caussa Dei et religionis naturalis adversis atheismum.
18th Century German Philosophy Prior to Kant
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“The ultimate cause of atheism, Newton asserted, is ‘this notion of bodies having, as it were, a complete, absolute and independent reality in themselves.’”
Book Review: Quantum Enigma
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Ethics (1677) was also identified as containing Hobbist doctrines (e.g., materialism and necessitarianism) that led directly to atheism.
Hume on Religion
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A possible inclusion to the site would be the definition of "apatheism", which as far as I can tell is the best equivalent to "I don't know", although it also encompasses "I don't care".
Planet Atheism
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Yet this could represent the Ghost's embodiment of the disciples' moment of doubt and fear, rather than the atheism of modern generations.
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Evolutionary theory is no more tied to metaphysical naturalism or atheism than is meteorology or medical science.
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But atheism - flatly stating ‘There is no God,’ full stop, no room for a shadow or a shade of a doubt, makes a claim for absolute knowledge - gnosis.
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It saddens me deeply that you feel that our ministry is more dangerous than atheism.
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He completed his MA in Counseling at Asbury Theological Seminary, his MDiv at Duke University, a ThM at Harvard in World Religions with a thesis on evangelical Christians and Islam, and is now a doctoral candidate at Durham University in Great Britain writing a dissertation on the New Atheism.
Ben DeVan: Evangelicals And Muslims Loving God, Each Other, And The World Together?
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He then segued into a discussion of atheism.
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The unclad working class panorama would slam rusted doors on the Promised Land, ransacking determined belief from our official atheism.
Soviet
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Atheism, agnosticism and free thinkers are the products of rational thinking, skeptical inquiry and critical analysis, which severely put religious belief on the defensive. Dr T.P.Chia
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As a prelude to this Genesis-geology controversy, the eighteenth century also witnessed the spread of two competing but largely similar worldviews: deism and atheism.
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The causes of atheism are: divisions in religion, if they be many; for any one main division, addeth zeal to both sides; but many divisions introduce atheism.
The Essays
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Indeed one of the other fashionable mistakes of the moment is to blur the distinction between the terms atheism and secularism.
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Nishitani finds profounder intimations of a truly radical subjectivity in both Meister Eckhart's mystical theology and Nietzsche's radical atheism, which each in their own way go beyond, or dig beneath, attachments to and sublations of egoity.
The Kyoto School
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As a thinker he advanced from theological liberalism to deism, then pantheism and possibly to atheism.
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Dawkins not only admits his atheism is a personal, subjective choice, but he roots it is his FEELINGS!
Dawkins: Shallow Elation and Retreat
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Atheism, agnosticism and free thinkers are the products of rational thinking, skeptical inquiry and critical analysis, which severely put religious belief on the defensive. Dr T.P.Chia
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I am so irreligious that atheism seems a religion to me.
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I whole-heartedly welcome proposals to tell children about atheism and agnosticism in schools.
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This stance can be better described by the neologism apatheism.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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Students were assigned to three distinctive world views: monotheism, polytheism, and atheism.
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Atheism is not anti-God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
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But they went one stage further: Soviet socialism adopted a stance of militant atheism.
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Belief is a spiritual fighter against theism. Atheism is a strong belief that God does not exist, and that religion corrupts the human mind. Dr T.P.Chia
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Atheism is against God-based religion which is illusive, mysterious and dogmatic, and which has convinced people to believe in something that is imaginative, incomprehensive and inconceivable. Dr T.P.Chia
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And in terms of religious education is atheism or humanism ever given equal balance with official religions?
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But they went one stage further: Soviet socialism adopted a stance of militant atheism.
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It's not his atheism, but his expressions of anti-religionism that are deeply offensive.
Science and Religion (and Sex)
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He is the author of Natural Atheism, a book which will be published by American Atheist press later this year.
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Atheism is not anti-God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
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If he bets on atheism, however, he will have a life of ease and pleasure - a daily ration of brownies and milk.
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Islam and violence alastair.adversaria » Some Thoughts on Islam and Violence: Atheism and secularism are, in many respects, working with borrowed moral capital when they condemn the violent past of Christendom.
Islam and violence
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Atheism, skepticism, polytheism, materialism, pantheism, and impersonalism are by their nature contrary to love.
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relinquish" here is an improvement on modern translations; note how this verse implicitly links atheism and homosexuality and other promiscuity
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I had thought as a freshman at Kenyon that atheism was the most rebellious thing I could do.
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While the term postmodernism is often used to describe an aesthetic, artistic worldview characterized by a distrust of theories and ideology, I think it usefully applies (or rather should apply) to the "certainties" on both sides in the religion vs. atheism debate.
Frank Schaeffer: The "New Atheist" Crusade and Me
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I think, he says, I need new terms here entirely because, yes, not all monotheism is universalist and predicated on the faith/doubt, win/lose scenario of Pascalus's Christianity (as your example of Judaism illustrates), not all polytheism is of that Graeco-Roman nature (as your example of Hinduism points out), and the atheism I'm talking about really includes antitheist and agnostic outlooks in its focus on doubt.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FIVE
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Let us assume (for the sake of argument) that atheism does indeed predispose people to commit atrocities in the course of prosecuting a war.
Berlinski's Wisdom
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Atheists can point out flaws in our beliefs – which is perfectly in keeping with the term atheism, as atheism often arises in reaction to a specific form of theism.
God Is Nothing « Publius the Geek
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Atheism is not anti-God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
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Let me quickly say that I am not advocating mass conversions to atheism or agnosticism.
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At best, modern atheism can be misread back into classical antiquity.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Secularism is the pre - step for atheism and which in turn leads to communism and antisocialism.
Undefined
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One should be about as “proselytic” about atheism as one is about the age of the earth, the color of the sky or the time of day.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Atheism and Proselytization:
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Atheism is not anti-God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
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Assume (for the sake of argument) that atheism does indeed predispose people to commit atrocities in the course of prosecuting a war.
Berlinski's Wisdom
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It is impossible to conceive of dialectical materialism without atheism, and it is this which underlies Marxism as an ideology.
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Since the Whole after which he lusts cannot be known, the philosopher cannot propose a dogmatic atheism and still retain his zetetic search.
Archive 2008-05-11
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I wouldn't try to categorize all atheists, myself – the viewpoints range from 'there is insufficient evidence for theism' to 'there is sufficient evidence for atheism' to 'the necessary being is mindless randomness' to elsewise.
Dawkins and ID
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There can be no doubt that the Christians suffered for these crimes whether or no they were guilty of them: "Three things are alleged against us: Atheism, Thyestean feasts, OEdipodean intercourse," says
The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History
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This stance can be better described by the neologism '' apatheism ''.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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The profoundest form of atheism is not the one that involves strenuously denying the existence of God but the one that lets theistic ways of talking fall into desuetude.
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I think you’ll find that the stance of simply not caring much about God or religion ’apatheism’ in the jokey parlance is much less common than you imagine.
Cut God Some Slack - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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As new ideas grew more and more alarming in the Victorian era (atheism, evolution, rumblings of social revolution), the man of letters found himself a consoler as well as a critic, increasingly adopting a soothing bedside manner to quell the anxieties of the middle classes.
March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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One interesting discovery is the paucity of scholarly work on the actual history of atheism.
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Atheism is a non- prophet organization. George Carlin
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Atheism is the enemy of God- based religion(s), but is accepted in some spiritual beliefs such as Hinduism and Buddhism. Dr T.P.Chia
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Atheism is the enemy of God- based religion(s), but is accepted in some spiritual beliefs such as Hinduism and Buddhism. Dr T.P.Chia
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It had also been predicted that a great wave of atheism would sweep the world.
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Adams's Federalist presidency was more bitter still, and the 1800 rematch produced charges of atheism and libertinism against Jefferson, and of monarchism against Adams.
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But the vision of a new world soon darkened, as constitution-making gave way to mob rule, regicide, terror, atheism, and then military dictatorship.
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How much of Atheism has infiltrated into legislative and executive branches at all levels of government?
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What is the force or validity of Cleanthes claim that without anthropomorphism, the worship of deity is atheism?
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It is impossible to conceive of dialectical materialism without atheism, and it is this which underlies Marxism as an ideology.
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A poignant exhibition in the parliament building shows the mass murder, deportations, collectivisation, forced atheism and unrelenting propaganda inflicted on Lithuania under Soviet rule.
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Denial of any purpose and order is current in atheism and materialism.
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Atheism is not anti-God but is strongly opposing any religion that creates the existence of God and use it to corrupt and control the human mind. The atheists reject the existence of God. God does not exist – but they are not necessarily irreligious. They can be believers of any spiritual belief that is not God- based. They are just as ethical and moral as religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
