Sentence examples for atheism from inspiring English sources

The struggle for free speech, for free inquiry and for the liberty of atheism need not be a fight against religion, unless religion is opposed to human dignity.

Haneke instead found himself nominated alongside none other than Quentin Tarantino, a pairing that but for the resolute atheism of Haneke's work is bound to be interpreted as the only proof of the existence of God provided by the 2013 Oscar season.

Who gets trolled has a direct impact on who gets to talk; in my personal experience, the fiercest trolling has come from traditionally white, male-dominated communities (comedy, video games, atheism) whose members would like to keep it that way.

The British novelist called on students to remember that "religion and atheism, and all thought systems, all grand claims to truth, must be open to criticism, satire, even, sometimes, mockery", and that "being offended is not to be confused with a state of grace; it's the occasional price we all pay for living in an open society".

By some counts there are at least 500m declared non-believers in the world enough to make atheism the fourth-biggest religion.Choice is the most "modern" thing about contemporary religion.

Two decades have passed since the downfall of most of the regimes where atheism was state policy and religion existed only on sufferance; and over that time, liberal democracy has advanced.

The official atheism of Communist days, when believers were hounded, jailed and killed, is long gone.

They're not burning people at the stake, or putting them on the rack, or forcing opponents to either profess atheism or be killed.

Asia has by far the largest number of people who claim to have no religion; China's official atheism explains much of that.

When Thomas Jefferson's enemies wanted to distribute pamphlets accusing him of atheism and adultery, or to spread a premature report of his death, they used horses, which could outrun even the most rapid rebuttal.Candidates for the presidency in 2008 have a wider range of media through which to spread dirty but memorable sound-bites, or even to discuss the issues.

Dreadful as it was, this trend could be a negative side-effect of a "different, positive, parallel trend"—the fact that atheism and humanism were being recognised as cohesive world-views.I asked one of the best-known professed atheists to have emerged from the Muslim world, the exiled Egyptian blogger Mikael Nabil Sanad, what he thought of the report's conclusions.