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An atheist who said "I do not accept the Christian or any other form of religious belief" but not a secularist, saying he supported the established church "from the outside". He likened religion in general to a "dangerous narcotic" and said he thought death meant simply "black velvet - eternal sleep". [172]
Atheism at the agora: a history of unbelief in ancient Greek polytheism. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781032492995. Meagher, Richard J. Atheists in American politics: Social movement organizing from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries (Lexington Books, 2018). Obbink, Dirk (1989). "The Atheism of Epicurus". Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies.
State atheism or atheist state is the incorporation of hard atheism or non-theism into political regimes. [27] It is considered the opposite of theocracy and may also refer to large-scale secularization attempts by governments. [ 28 ]
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the lack of belief in the existence of deities.In a narrower sense, atheism is simply the absence of belief that any deities exist. This is a compilation of the various lists of atheists with articles on Wikipedia by category.
Accurate demographics of atheism are difficult to obtain since conceptions of atheism and self-identification are context dependent by culture. [12] In 2009, Pew stated that only 5% of the US population did not have a belief in a god and out of that small group only 24% self-identified as "atheist", while 15% self-identified as "agnostic" and ...
List of atheists in science and technology; List of atheists (surnames A to B) List of atheists (surnames C to D) List of atheists (surnames E to G) List of atheists (surnames H to K) List of atheists (surnames L to M) List of atheists (surnames N to Q) List of atheists (surnames R to S) List of atheists (surnames T to Z)
The secular movement refers to a social and political trend in the United States, [1] beginning in the early years of the 20th century, with the founding of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism in 1925 and the American Humanist Association in 1941, in which atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, freethinkers, and other nonreligious and nontheistic Americans have grown in ...
In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. [2] [3] Most inclusively, atheism is simply the absence of belief that any deities exist. [3] [4] Atheism is contrasted with theism, [5] [6] which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists. [6] [7]