Sentence examples for a convinced atheist from inspiring English sources

The 2012 Gallup Global Index of Religiosity and Atheism, measured the percentage of people who viewed themselves as "a religious person, not a religious person or a convinced atheist?" 13% reported to be "convinced atheists".

All my adult life I have been a convinced atheist with strong libertarian instincts.

While 53% of people said they were not religious, only 13% said they were a convinced atheist and the remainder did not know how to define themselves.

I said: 'Say that again.'" Generally, McEwan, once a prince of darkness and artist of the danse macabre, is sanguine, optimistic and robust in his faithlessness, a convinced atheist.

1963 Leading Soviet Editor Meets Pope VATICAN CITY — Alexei Adzhubei, Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's son-in-law and a self-described convinced atheist, met Pope John XXIII today [March 7] in one of the most unusual papal audiences ever held.

On it, I saw the populist… I have a friend, an analytic philosopher and convinced atheist, who told me that she sometimes wakes in the middle of the night, anxiously turning… This Beautiful Life, by Helen Schulman (HarperCollins; $24.99).

I have a friend, an analytic philosopher and convinced atheist, who told me that she sometimes wakes in the middle of the night, anxiously turning over a series of ultimate questions: "How can it be that this world is the result of an accidental big bang?

In that sense, your really convinced atheist is much more religious than someone who goes along with all the prayers just because that's what everyone does, without for a moment supposing the action means anything more than asking about the weather.

Mr Toledo is a convinced democrat.

By 1895 Driesch was a convinced vitalist.

1933 Leaves Cambridge a convinced Communist.