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"There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist."
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Atheism"If there is one indisputable fact about the human condition it is that no community can survive if it is persuaded — or even if it suspects — that its members are leading meaningless lives in a meaningless universe."
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."