• term New Atheism describes the positions of some atheist academics, writers, scientists, and philosophers of the 20th and 21st centuries. New Atheism advocates...
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  • Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities...
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  • Jewish atheism refers to the atheism of people who are ethnically and (at least to some extent) culturally Jewish. Contrary to popular belief, the term...
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  • Agnostic atheism or atheistic agnosticism is a philosophical position that encompasses both atheism and agnosticism. Agnostic atheists are atheistic because...
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  • Criticism of atheism is criticism of the concepts, validity, or impact of atheism, including associated political and social implications. Criticisms include...
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  • Atheism is the rejection of an assertion that a deity exists. In a narrower sense, hard atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities...
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    Negative atheism, also called weak atheism and soft atheism, is any type of atheism where a person does not believe in the existence of any deities but...
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    State atheism or atheist state is the incorporation of hard atheism or non-theism into political regimes. It is considered the opposite of theocracy and...
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  • Accurate demographics of atheism are difficult to obtain since conceptions of atheism vary considerably across different cultures and languages, ranging...
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  • Christian atheism embraces the teachings, narratives, symbols, practices, or communities associated with Christianity without accepting the literal existence...
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  • overview of and topical guide to atheism: Atheism – rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position...
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  • Scientific atheism may refer to: Marxist–Leninist atheism, a communist doctrine and philosophical science formerly promoted in the Eastern Bloc New Atheism, a...
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  • Hindu atheism or non-theism, which is known as Nirīśvaravāda (Sanskrit: निरीश्वर्वाद, nir-īśvara-vāda, lit. "Argument against the existence of Ishvara")...
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    Daniel Dennett (category New Atheism)
    American philosophers". He was referred to as one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism, along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens...
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  • the existence of God. Accurate demographics of atheism are difficult to obtain since conceptions of atheism and self-identification are context dependent...
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  • Marxist–Leninist atheism, also known as Marxist–Leninist scientific atheism, is the antireligious element of Marxism–Leninism. Based upon a dialectical-materialist...
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    Implicit atheism and explicit atheism are types of atheism. In George H. Smith's Atheism: The Case Against God, "implicit atheism" is defined as "the absence...
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    "The Necessity of Atheism" is an essay on atheism by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, printed in 1811 by Charles and William Phillips in Worthing...
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  • the argument that atheism is a religion has been described as a contradiction in terms. Jewish atheism usually refers to the atheism of people who are...
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    Sam Harris (category New Atheism)
    criticism of religion, and is known as one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism, along with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett...
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    Richard Dawkins (category New Atheism)
    contemporary cultural zeitgeist and has also been identified with the rise of New Atheism. In the book, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly...
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  • of religion God of the gaps Morality without religion Pascal's Wager New Atheism Spectrum of theistic probability Dawkins, Richard (2006). The God Delusion...
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    For much of his career Flew was an advocate of atheism, arguing that one should presuppose atheism until empirical evidence suggesting the existence...
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  • support atheism, applying the razor to atheism itself would seem to imply that atheism is epistemically unjustified. According to Antony, the New Atheists...
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    Michael Brooks (political commentator) (category New York (state) socialists)
    had no universal criticisms of atheism in general, but was critical of the main public figures associated with New Atheism, such as Sam Harris, Christopher...
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  • PhD dissertation. Though an atheist, LeDrew criticises the movement of New Atheism, which arose in the 2000s with the "Four Horsemen" Richard Dawkins, Daniel...
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  • alt.atheism is a Usenet newsgroup within the alt.* hierarchy that discusses atheism. The group was originally created on February 6, 1990 by a member...
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  • against atheists, sometimes called atheophobia, atheistophobia, or anti-atheism, both at present and historically, includes persecution of and discrimination...
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    Ayaan Hirsi Ali (category New Atheism)
    also hosted The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast. Ali was a central figure in New Atheism since its beginnings. She was strongly associated with the movement,...
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    The Clergy Project (category New Atheism)
    recipient of an outplacement grant in 2013. He publicly announced his atheism at the Freedom From Religion Foundation Convention in Pittsburgh in October...
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