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| | Famous Dead Nontheists |
 | | Not an atheist, but a deist (and a freemason). | | | Not an atheist, but a "heretic" who was in conflict with the church over his cosmological theories. | | | Not an atheist, but an early advocate for the subordination of the church to the state. |
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| | An atheist is a person who does not believe in the existence of a god, i.e., in the existence of a supernatural being. | | | Atheists and other non-theists do not have to swear an oath on the Bible, they can affirm. | | | Many atheists hide their true religious or to be more accurate, unreligious beliefs, to avoid discrimination. |
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| | For example, atheists are specifically and directly condemned in the Bible, and that follows naturally into the Christian faith. | | | When you are an atheist, you have chosen not to believe in God; you have chosen to lead your life as if there was no God. | | | An atheist is free to reject God and yet support some form of afterlife or another. |
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http://vclass.mtsac.edu:940/pobrien/ath7.htm
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| | Secular Web Kiosk and Bookstore |
| | Atheists need factual knowledge about the history of freethought but they also need knowledge that is useful in defending their position: for instance, knowledge of the criticisms of standard arguments for the existence of God. | | | An important tendency that atheists should acquire is sensitivity to issues affecting atheism such as church state issues, and the political power of religion. | | | n atheist friend of mine was worried that his children would turn out to be religious.[1] He suggested -- I am not sure how seriously -- that the way to assure their ultimate acceptance of atheism was to subject them to strict religious training. |
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http://www.secweb.org/asset.asp?AssetID=45
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| | Religious Movements Homepage: Atheism |
| | Some atheists believe that religion is "the opiate of the people," that it makes society worse, and that a popular belief in no God will make society better.(13) They see religion as an institution that divides people, and professes hypocritical and inconsistent doctrine. | | | Unlike atheists, who believe that God does not exist, agnostics do not deny the existence of God, but rather believe that no substantial evidence has been found to disprove the existence of God. | | | Others join atheist groups that act as a social network, as a group that tries to dissuade others from "blind faith" in religion, or as an ideology/religion in and of itself. |
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http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/atheism.html
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| | Persecution of atheists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Atheists often sum up the legal situation with the phrase: "Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion;;." [5] | | | [7] However, several state constitutions make the protection of persons from religious discrimination conditional on their acknowledgement of the existence of a deity, apparently making freedom of religion in those states inapplicable to atheists. | | | Many atheists have experienced persecution, mainly from Christians and Muslims. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Atheists
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| | AFF's Brainwash :: Not All Atheists Mind the Pledge |
| | What is important is that atheists are allowed to believe and say what they wish without fear of government reprisal, and that the government is not attempting to influence people to become religious or join a particular religion. | | | Atheists know that the vast majority of Americans believe in a divine power of some kind. | | | The First Amendment was not intended to force the government to pretend that religion doesn’t exist; it was to prevent religious persecution. |
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http://www.affbrainwash.com/archives/007491.php
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| | Christianity |
| | Persecution was briefly revived during the reign of Julian the Apostate (361-363) who tried to restore paganism to the empire; Christianity was later made the officially favored religion in about 382 by Emperor Theodotius. | | | In spite of the widely held belief that violence is antithetical to Christ's teachings, Christian adherents have at times persecuted, tortured, and killed others for refusing to believe in their type of Christianity. | | | There are, however, exceptions such as American Christian Reconstructionism which calls for the persecution of dissenting faiths. |
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http://christianity.ask.dyndns.dk
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| | slacktivist: Persecution (cont'd.) |
| | He claimed that he was being persecuted for his religious beliefs. | | | What ties this into the topic of persecution is a feeling, whether real or illusionary, that the gatekeepers of the scientific community are hostile to the religious impulse. | | | That doesn't mean God doesn't exist or scientists must be atheists. |
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http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2005/05/persecution_con.html
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| | American Persecution |
| | It is an honor to be selected by God to suffer persecution in order to bring the gospel to the unsaved. | | | To gain support of Christians, politicians spew the warning of separation of church and state, yet complain whenever religion is persecuted in order to enlarge their bank accounts. | | | The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) is an honorable group who aid and comfort the persecuted Christian church worldwide. |
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| | Wikinfo Religion |
| | It is possible that atheists (those who hold to the tenets of scientific materialism and do not believe in any deities) or agnostics (those who believe we cannot know if there are any deities) always existed as well. | | | Christianity is also noted for Religious persecution as done by the various Inquisitions of the Roman Catholic Church, but also persecution by Protestants. | | | It is mainly the experience of doubt about the so-called truths of religion by believers and non-believers alike that led to the development of science in order to provide more acceptable explanations of natural phenomena. |
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http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=Religion
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| | Matthew Fox, on mysticism : religious atheism |
| | Their persecution as atheists is directly related to their refusal to worship as their Roman culture dictated, and when they acquiesce, only after three centuries, to building their own churches and buildings and thereby paralleling Roman worship, the persecutions ceased. | | | The sense of the sacred was rare to come by even for those who claimed to believe, for anthropocentrism, adultism, and patriarchy all banish the sense of awe, wonder, and mystery that form the basis for a sense of the sacred. | | | But God is not conceiveable as an object of our prayer, and such a situation leads directly to atheism, as both Marcel and Tillich suggest. |
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| | Documents on the Persecution of the Early Church |
| | Hence we shall not mention those who were shaken by the persecution, nor those who in everything pertaining to salvation were shipwrecked, and by their own will were sunk in the depths of the flood. | | | Documents on the Persecution of the Early Church | | | (A.D. Eusebius (263-340) was an eyewitness to many martyrdoms in Caesarea during the persecution commenced by Diocletian in 303. |
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| | Celebrity Atheists MetaFilter |
| | The many atheists that I've known reach most of these moral conclusions on their own, with the exception that they choose not to worship any god. | | | This is why I'm an atheist on even days, an agnostic on odd days and a strict Buddhist on all other days. | | | Atheists can be just as fanatical as anyone, so I don't think they're much help making with the nice nice between dueling monotheists, and I say that as an atheist. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/26570
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| | CGR Community - American Atheists Inc. |
| | Remember the rul is that it had to be done in the name of the Christian religion and not by some guy who in his own dementia acted on his own accord. | | | Show me a TV show where an atheist or gay is mocked and ridiculed and I can show you ten that portray a bible beleiving minister as a buffoon. |
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http://www.christianguitar.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-52906
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| | Atheistic Education |
| | Although this definition includes atheists, agnostics, skeptics and humanists it also encompasses deists and a wide variety of unorthodox religious believers. | | | By "freethinker" he means an independent thinker--someone who challenges the religious tradition in which she was raised. | | | It provides a framework that can help a good teacher to distinguish a freethinker who is an atheist from a freethinker who is not and to show how atheists are freethinkers of a special kind. |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/michael_martin/education.html
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| |  : persecution |
| | Christian persecution has come to America in the form of arson and hate crimes towards numerous Christian churches of both black and white congregations. | | | Pray that Muslims would begin to see Christ as He really is and come to faith in the one true God who is Jesus alone. | | | This is not a religion of peace and until the church wakes up and begins praying for those trapped in this deadly religion we will continue to be persecuted and killed in the name of Allah. |
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http://writingright.typepad.com/writingright/persecution
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| | Christian Persecution |
| | In a Special Edition Persecution and Prayer Alert on May 25, we reported on the imminent closure of a Christian school in Islamabad (for more information, see http://www.persecution.net/pnp3_se.htm). | | | Pray for this difficult situation, for the protection of the believers and their testimony there and for God to provide the funds needed for reconstruction. | | | Appeals for Pastor Gong and other South China Church members have been filed, but have been delayed indefinitely, blaming restrictions due to SARS. |
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| | Apologetics research resources on religious cults and sects - Relativism, Renewal, Revival, Religious Movements, Etc. |
| | God permits persecution for the training of his remnant in the proper methods of spiritual warfare. | | | Designed to allow students and faculty to pray or meditate to the deity of choice (or, alternatively, to daydream, try and remember the lyrics of some love song, worry about an upcoming test, or just go blank), because, it claims, ''this law has had state-sanctioned prayer written all over it. | | | The practice of discouraging freedom of religion and the freedom to express and/or promote all or certain religious beliefs - with repercussions ranging from prevention to persecution (including murder). |
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| | American Atheists |
| | An Atheist accepts that he can get no help through prayer, but that he must find in himself the inner conviction and strength to meet life, to grapple with it, to subdue it and to enjoy it. | | | Initiated by the founder of the organization, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, this famous suit is a part of a long tradition in the legal battle for separation of state and church. | | | "Your petitioners are Atheists, and they define their lifestyle as follows. |
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| | National Atheists |
| | National Atheists will be a site dedicated to the conservative movement of the atheist/freethought philosophy. | | | America is a nation of literally hundreds of religions so the philosophy of the governemt and educatonal system should reflect none as to include all. | | | Other religions and displays of them do not offend us but again it should not be included in government or education. |
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| | Indian Skeptic Vol 1 2/1 Blasphemy Law in Germany |
| | The blasphemy law protects the priests from being questioned and the spirit of inquiry is nipped in the bud itself. | | | If religion and god would like to survive let them fight with reason and not by force and suppression. | | | I do not know whether reason would prevail with the priests who suppress reason and free thinking. |
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| | ..:: #51 - P e r s e c u t i o n ::.. |
| | And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled." Revelation 6:9-11 | | | The organization records incidents of Christian persecution in the Holy Land and elsewhere, and works for changes in the way Islam is taught. | | | For Emmanuel's believers, it was the latest indignity in a decade-long struggle to build a church for their 1,000-member Moscow parish. |
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| | pagans blogs |
| | He also brought up the past persecution of Atheists, Pagans and others of different spirituality and that most Pagans are afraid of that sort of thing happening again. | | | But we live in 2005 (almost 2006 OMG), where there is very little unknown about all the different religions and spiritualities out there. | | | I would rather have the President's spirituality or non-spirituality as a factor in choosing him/her. |
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| | Largest Religious Groups in the USA |
| | The survey indicates a significantly larger number of agnostics (and atheists), but current Gallup polls show that the overall percentage of Americans who profess a belief in God is essentially unchanged between 1990 and 2000. | | | Q.18 What is your religious preference -- do you consider yourself Christian, Jewish, Muslim, other non-Christian such as Buddhist or Hindu, atheist, agnostic, something else, or don't you have a religious preference? | | | Top Ten ORGANIZED Religions in the United States, 2001 |
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| | Pledge Questions and Answers |
| | A recent survey of the new American Religious Identification Survey released by the City University of New York reported that 14 percent of respondents were atheists, agnostics, secular humanists or showed no religious affiliation. | | | About 81 percent of U.S adults identified with a religion, but only 54 percent said that someone in their household belonged to a church, synagogue, or other house of workshop. | | | In 1952 the Reverend Dr. George M. Docherty, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC, preached in favor of adding "under God" to the Pledge. |
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| | Seed of Persecution |
| | In Sweden, a pastor was arrested at his church after he read Bible verses about homosexuality. | | | "The first amendment establishes freedom from religious persecution regardless of age,' explained Mr. | | | Not content with closing down more than 2500 religious schools, Combes's government forbade all people from religious orders to teach." |
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| | Apologetics Press - God and the Pledge of Allegiance |
| | But what about all the atheists, Buddhists, Hindus, Native Americans, et al. | | | To put this question into perspective, consider another question: what about all the atheists, Buddhists, Hindus, Native Americans, et al. | | | Did the Founders intend to create a nation that adjusts itself to accommodate every ideology, religion, and hair-brained philosophy that comes to our shores? |
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| | Easter 2Ce, Easter 3Ca. Epistle |
| | The book of Revelation was, according to tradition, penned by John the apostle during the reign of Domitian, AD 81-96. | | | John saw in these events the sign of things to come. | | | As far as the Roman authorities were concerned, Christians were atheists. |
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| | WIST - A Collection of Quotations :: A |
| | The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. | | | When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it. | | | To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition. |
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| | News - A Month in the Life of the Ten Commandments - Center for Reclaiming America |
| | Downey expressed her disappointment: “When the government displays a religious icon, it gives credence to the persecution of atheists. | | | Margaret Downey, a member of the atheistic Freethought Society, initiated the suit, and has commented that she may appeal to the Supreme Court. |
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| | Inquisitive Atheists - Rant: Christian Persecution in America? |
| | I hear it all the time, they’ll usually make some reference to the Bible saying they’ll be persecuted and that they are. | | | The Christian religion gets better treatment than any other religion, or lack thereof, in this country. | | | If by persecution they mean not given 100% the special treatment they want, history changed to suit their wanting, their religion forced upon every child in America through the public education system, then yeah, they’re being persecuted. |
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| | The Cavalier Daily |
| | Many brave men and women of our armed forces have lost their lives to protect the non-believer's right to deny God's existence and the agnostic's to question him. | | | We have come a long way from the persecution of atheists and agnostics that occurred during the heyday of McCarthyism. | | | Religious leaders like Francis Cardinal Spellman, Billy Graham and Bishop Fulton Sheen were attempting to affect political policy via their pulpit. |
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| | 10ft2ft.com |
| | But as I read on, something about this book began to disturb me. | | | Conservatives think Liberals are complete losers who can’t take care of themselves, and atheists think the same of Christians for leaning on the “crutch” that is God. | | | There’s something I’ve seen happen among liberals and conservatives – Christians and atheists – that has always bothered me. There are those on BOTH sides, who seem to think there is no way the world can survive in the clutches of the other side, the dark side. |
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| | TECH » My wp.com Invite |
| | I am a Secular Humanist attending a Catholic school, and as a result I face a lot of persecution for my lack of belief in God. | | | I would like an invite where I can post some personal stuff, and blog entries about stuff. | | | I’d like to use my blog to write about this to showcase the persecution of atheists in modern-day America. |
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| | Court upholds Ten Commandments plaque on courthouse |
| | "When the government displays a religious icon, it gives credence to the persecution of atheists." | | | Without filing a lawsuit, atheists in Clearfield County asked for the removal of a Ten Commandments tablet from the courthouse there last year, but the county commissioners refused. | | | The court's ruling overturned a March 2002 lower court decision that the plaque was inherently a religious statement, improper for a government building, and must be taken down. |
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| | Arizona Atheists |
| | We want this place to be fun, interesting and enlightening. | | | It is rather amusing (when I’m in a good mood) to hear conservatives (especially religious ones) complain that they are “persecuted” in American society, that they don’t get a saying, that they have constantly to battle against the liberal media bias. | | | This purpose of this site is to provide a meeting place for Arizona's atheists. |
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| | Toleration [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | One of the worries of the humanist thinkers of the Reformation was whether it was possible to have infallible knowledge of the Divine Will such that one could justify the persecution of heretics. | | | He argues that the state should refrain from interfering in the religious beliefs of its subjects, except when these religious beliefs lead to behaviors or attitudes that run counter to the security of the state. | | | This exception allows him to conclude that the state need not tolerate Catholics who were loyal to a foreign authority or atheists whose lack of religious conviction left them entirely untrustworthy. |
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| | Christian Persecution |
| | You are put in prison for believing in Jesus!! | | | Many have said that Christians do not suffer persecution. | | | The pagan society would have everyone believe that nothing happens to anyone but them. |
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| | Persecution of Atheists in Public Schools |
| | Certainly they can respect you for who you are. | | | would happen to Atheists at that time if we were as | | | atheists in this school, we are still the largest |
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| | The UK's Leading Atheist Page - Christianity |
| | He wrote 'In recent years things have gone so far that patriotic circles, in god-forsaken blindness of their religious strife, could not recognise the folly of their conduct even from the fact that atheist Marxist newspapers advocated the cause of one religious denomination or the other...' (Mein Kampf) | | | It is often claimed that Hitler and Nazis in general were atheists. | | | Is there any evidence of persecution of Atheists by the Nazis? |
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| | Fred Foldvary on Reparations - Going All the Way |
| | Homosexuals are owed reparations by heterosexuals for centuries of persecution, and atheists are due reparations from Christians and other theists for the same. | | | Many countries in eastern Asia are owed reparations by the Japanese for conquest and deaths in this century until the end of World War II. | | | Gypsies are owed reparations by almost all European countries. |
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| | atheists - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "atheists" is defined. | | | We found 4 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word atheists: | | | Phrases that include atheists: american atheists, atheists of silicon valley, atheists wager, historical persecution by atheists, league of militant atheists, more... |
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| | Mill on Liberty |
| | Freedom of speech - limited only for overt actions - benefits of finding, better understanding, strengthening truth - no persecution of atheists, heresy IV. |
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| | Indian Skeptic Volume 1 Overview |
| | Investigate the Murder at Satya Sai Baba's college - Narendra Nayak. | | | Blasphemy Law: Persecution of Atheists in West Germany - B. Premanand 2 2. |
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| | Slashdot Scientology vs. Panoussis Ruling |
| | Persecution by atheists by Pseudonymus Bosch (Score:2) Friday March 09, @07:15AM | | | Re:Persecution by atheists by greenrd (Score:1) Friday March 09, @03:53PM | | | Re:Persecution by atheists by Quikah (Score:1) Friday March 09, @08:53AM |
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