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Definition of atheism
1a : a lack of belief or a strong disbelief in the existence of a god or any godsb : a philosophical or religious position characterized by disbelief in the existence of a god or any gods
2 archaic : godlessness especially in conduct : ungodliness, wickedness
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Recent Examples of atheism from the Web
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The controversy is based in a conservative and hard-line approach to the scientific theory that equates evolution with atheism, according to Mustafa Akyol a fellow at the Freedom Project at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
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At around the same time, an atheism activist sought to place a banner advertising the Church of Satanology on a fence at Boca Raton High School.
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A Pew Research Center survey conducted in 2014 found Americans view Islam less favorably than other major religions and atheism.
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Many prominent figures in Russia expressed outrage at Sokolovsky’s conviction, seeing it as a condemnation of atheism.
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Maldives is a predominantly Sunni Muslim state where practicing other faiths and atheism are banned.
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Keywords: religion; atheism; social desirability; stigma; Bayesian estimation How many atheists are there? 3 How many atheists are there?
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That unified force was a God too massive, too inhuman, to resist with the atheism in which I had been brought up.
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The party espouses atheism, and Mao Zedong suppressed religion during the Cultural Revolution.
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Origin and Etymology of atheism
Middle French athéisme, from athée atheist, from Greek atheos godless, from a- + theos god
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