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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]
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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 ]
The studies also showed that rejection of atheists was related to the respondent's lack of exposure to diversity, education and political orientations. [95] Atheists and atheist organizations have alleged discrimination against atheists in the military, [96] [97] [98] and recently, with the development of the Army's Comprehensive Soldier ...
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 ...
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which is the belief that at least one deity exists.
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Also called "weak atheism". Implicit atheism – "the absence of theistic belief without a conscious rejection of it". [9] Agnostic atheism – philosophical position that encompasses both atheism and agnosticism. Agnostic atheists are atheistic because they do not hold a belief in the existence of any deity and agnostic because they claim that ...