Madalyn Murray O'Hair

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

American Writer

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm constantly claimed by atheists. I find this intriguing. In fact, on my Wiki page - I didn't create the Wiki page, others did, and I'm flattered that people cared enough about my life to assemble it - and it said, 'Neil deGrasse is an atheist.

American Scientist

Ian Mcewan

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

British Author

Tarsem Singh

I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

Indian Director

Kenza Fourati

I want a country where you can express different ideas peacefully and not be bothered and arrested unfairly for it. I want a country where you shouldn't be scared to say that you are an atheist, for example.

French Model

Jack Black

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.

American Actor

Joss Whedon

I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.

David Lowery

I'm an atheist. I don't believe in the afterlife, but I do believe in ghosts.

American Director

Jeff Hanneman

I'm pretty much an atheist, so I'd say this world is the only thing we got.

American Musician

James Buchan

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

British Novelist

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Being an atheist can be a central part of one's identity, often reflecting on broader worldviews.

Personal Identity

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Media and Content

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How I'm Working for...

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 There is an effective evolution lobby coordinating the fight on behalf of science, and I try to do all I can to help them, but they get quite upset when people like me dare to mention that we happen to be atheists as well as evolutionists.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on...

 atheists and rabbis. Many people said that night that it was the first time that they had a meaningful religious experience in their entire lives. And so I set out to do the only rational thing that someone would do in such a

It's time to reclaim...

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Why does the universe...

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Billy Graham:...

 one of the most common ways of dividing the world is into those who believe and those who don't into the religious and the atheists and for the last decade or so it's been

Atheism 2.0 - Alain de...

 although China is officially an atheist country survey suggests up to 85 percent of people here believing something either spiritual or religious

China: Consumerism and...

 One of the most common ways of dividing the world is into those who believe and those who don't -- into the religious and the atheists.