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"There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist."
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Atheism"Atheists keep up their scoffing at the higher being, which was also honoured under the name of the highest or être suprême, and trample in the dust one proof of his existence after another, without noticing that they themselves, out of need for a higher being, only annihilate the old to make room for a new."
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 exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which is the belief that at least one deity exists.
"There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist."
"Mon chien est athée: il ne crois plus en moi."
"Atheism can never be an institution; ... it can never be more than a destitution."
"Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history."
"The only religion of Albania is Albanianism."
"Therefore, as atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it depriveth human nature of the means to exalt itself, above human frailty."