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  • Or am I remembering the lines of later atheists?†   (source)
  • "JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT!" he said crossly.†   (source)
  • Langdon also knew that Raphael, like many other religious artists, was a suspected closet atheist.†   (source)
  • At which point her arch nemesis, the sole atheist in Camp Ashpit's foxhole, a college professor named Dawkins, shouted out, "Particularly those of extraterrestrial origin!"†   (source)
  • No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists.†   (source)
  • Her uncle and his wile were atheists, but it was still a really fun trip.†   (source)
  • Thank God I'm an atheist.†   (source)
  • "I am an atheist," he said, holding the glass of whiskey to the light.†   (source)
  • Juanita has been using her excess money to start her own branch of the Catholic church-she considers herself a missionary to the intelligent atheists of the world.†   (source)
  • It was held in a huge church, which seemed strange considering Kerry was an outspoken atheist, but that part I could understand.†   (source)
  • The Cruiser would be a true eyesore even in a nation of atheists.†   (source)
  • There are no atheists in the trenches.†   (source)
  • An atheistic saint.†   (source)
  • The narrator went on to say that Akiane's mother was an atheist and that the concept of God was never discussed in their home.†   (source)
  • He was later accused of atheism and was ultimately forced to leave the city.†   (source)
  • My father had been a Lutheran in Wisconsin, but they were out of style in New England, so he had become a lapsed Lutheran and then, my mother said, a bitter atheist.†   (source)
  • "Dude, I'm an atheist.†   (source)
  • Atheists.†   (source)
  • ] "Kafir, she was an atheist!"†   (source)
  • Chief Engineer Vladimir Petchukocov was a loyal Party member and a committed atheist, but he was also a sailor and therefore profoundly superstitious.†   (source)
  • Others were gone, they were spending the summer at the motherhouse or visiting relatives somewhere or doing doctoral studies on some campus, sharing pathways under the shade trees with atheists and pinks.†   (source)
  • But I was way too much of a wussy to call myself an atheist, and because I wouldn't commit to being a true nonbeliever, Adam saw that as a chink in my armor.†   (source)
  • My brother was to be a great religious leader, to return the country to its former fervor, to turn the tide against atheism and the Revolution.†   (source)
  • Severe del Valle was an atheist and a Mason, but he had political ambitions and could not allow himself the luxury of missing the most heavily attended mass on Sundays and feast days, when everyone would have a chance to see him.†   (source)
  • Atheism is against the law, isn't it?'†   (source)
  • In Gatlin, being illegitimate was like being a communist or an atheist.†   (source)
  • I didn't have the heart to tell him the truth: that I was much closer to an atheist than an agnostic, that I doubted there was a God at all.†   (source)
  • It drives my father, who always loudly proclaims himself a Christmas atheist, completely bananas.†   (source)
  • Can you think in terms of God, or are you an atheist like so many of your countrymen?†   (source)
  • And atheists given privileges.†   (source)
  • I know not what to make of a republic of thirty million atheists.†   (source)
  • My mother told me that Abuela Celia was an atheist before I even understood what the word meant.†   (source)
  • "Then if you're such an atheist, why do you insist on believing in this miracle?"†   (source)
  • My parents, unlike the vast majority of the country, were atheists, and I was raised accordingly.†   (source)
  • Like all true Communists, Lee Harvey Oswald is an avowed atheist, so he does not pray for his journey's success.†   (source)
  • MARTHA: And I was an atheist.†   (source)
  • Atheism is not believing in god.†   (source)
  • 'Aren't you supposed to shut up and expect certain things— blackness if you're an atheist; overwhelming light if you believe?'†   (source)
  • Socrates responds not by specifically denying the charge of atheism, but by attacking Meletus for inconsistency: the charge against him accused him of believing in other gods, not in believing in no gods.†   (source)
  • FRANK: I'm an atheist, and I don't mind admitting it.†   (source)
  • The vicar might as well know right now that as for himself, he was an atheist; he considered Christianity a calamity.†   (source)
  • He goes on to say that this kind of religion, which declines wisdom, even though it may call itself Christian, is in reality as anti-Christian as is atheism.†   (source)
  • He worshipped the memory of Bakunin and was a complete atheist, which was a little strange too, because at that time I was still a very devout Catholic girl and I sometimes wondered how I could fall in love with this young man who don't believe in God.†   (source)
  • They're all named for the heroine, who succeeded in bringing a dissolute, sinning roue and atheist of a lover (St.†   (source)
  • I must get me to a typewriter And hammer out the story of an atheist Who believes in God (He goes off) CATES Colonel Drummond.†   (source)
  • Samuel wrote to Joe, saying, "I would be disappointed if you had not become an atheist, and I read pleasantly that you have, in your age and wisdom, accepted agnosticism the way you'd take a cookie on a full stomach.†   (source)
  • He was not an atheist, simply disliked religion.†   (source)
  • Supposing some local atheist hijacks one and picks it apart?†   (source)
  • Mrs. Hopewell could not say, "My daughter is an atheist and won't let me keep the Bible in the parlor.†   (source)
  • What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know whether God exists, or why, and yet believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, and that Christ's Gospel is its foundation.†   (source)
  • I'm not exactly an atheist, you know.†   (source)
  • Another atheist, I suppose.†   (source)
  • We face a hostile ideology-- global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method.†   (source)
  • Hume was not a Christian, neither was he a confirmed atheist.†   (source)
  • However, a much worse thing had happened: my father was now an atheist.†   (source)
  • Mr. Kumar was the first avowed atheist I ever met.†   (source)
  • Belva says that doesn't count as being either an atheist or a believer; that's just lazy."†   (source)
  • Remember, I was an atheist for a while, and then I came back to religion the hard way.†   (source)
  • C H A PT E R 2 2 I can well imagine an atheist's last words: "White, white!†   (source)
  • It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics.†   (source)
  • I'd always considered myself an atheist.†   (source)
  • Your dad is a Buddhist, but your mom is an atheist.†   (source)
  • She meant Valskaayans, who were, as a rule, not atheists but exclusive monotheists.†   (source)
  • Yes you are an atheist, or yes you believe in God?†   (source)
  • "Tell us about being a television atheist," Larry said.†   (source)
  • An atheist and a Muslim walk into a pagan afterlife.†   (source)
  • Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: Not an atheist, Martha …. a pagan.†   (source)
  • 'I'm probably just as good an atheist as you are,' she speculated boastfully.†   (source)
  • And why couldn't an atheist know what a prayer circle is?†   (source)
  • 'I'm not going to disrupt our religious services just to accommodate a bunch of lousy atheists.†   (source)
  • It's pretty rare for an atheist to get interested in religion.†   (source)
  • In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist.†   (source)
  • How did you know my father was an atheist?†   (source)
  • Pikkuah nefesh doesn't apply to an atheist.†   (source)
  • How does a man who was an atheist a decade ago convince a court that he's an expert on religion now?†   (source)
  • "You used to be an atheist," I said, changing the subject.†   (source)
  • Kerry the atheist curmudgeon, who hated how commercialized Christmas had become and so threw an annual Merry Anti-Christmas Celebration at the club, where he held a contest for which band could play the most distorted versions of Christmas carols.†   (source)
  • Swami Vivekenanda, an Indian who was instrumental in bringing Hinduism to the west, once said, "Just as certain world religions say that people who do not believe in a personal God outside themselves are atheists, we say that a person who does not believe in himself is an atheist.†   (source)
  • Swami Vivekenanda, an Indian who was instrumental in bringing Hinduism to the west, once said, "Just as certain world religions say that people who do not believe in a personal God outside themselves are atheists, we say that a person who does not believe in himself is an atheist.†   (source)
  • It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith.†   (source)
  • But because Lincoln never attached himself to an organized religion as an adult, his ability to combine the secular and the religious in the way he goes about his life will later have everyone from atheists to humanists to Calvinists claiming that he is one of theirs.†   (source)
  • "I know you've told me that you have no desire to go and that you were raised an atheist, but I want you to do this for me.†   (source)
  • She was alone, because her daughter Ferula had gone as she did every Friday to the tenements in the Misericordia District to say the rosary for the poor, the atheists, the prostitutes, and the orphans, who threw garbage at her, dumped chamber pots onto her, and spat on her while she, kneeling in the desolate slum alleyway, shouted an unbroken litany of Our Fathers and Hail Marys as she dripped with the slop of the poor, the spit of atheists, the garbage of prostitutes, and the refuse…†   (source)
  • It wasn't as deliberate as deciding, at age six, to become an atheist, but more like an imperceptible sloughing of layers.†   (source)
  • Were Ambrose Bierce alive today, he would no doubt have added to his Devil's Dictionary: "An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.†   (source)
  • Jefferson was decried as a Jacobin, an atheist, and charged with cowardice for having fled Monticello from the British cavalry in 1781.†   (source)
  • "You remember I'm an atheist, right?"†   (source)
  • Thus, if Jefferson was a Jacobin, a shameless southern libertine, and a "howling" atheist, Adams was a Tory, a vain Yankee scold, and, if truth be known, "quite mad."†   (source)
  • It compels me to look beneath the surface, to remind myself that, like me, the lady next door who scowls on her way to the mailbox, or the kids who strut down the street, or my atheist friend who enjoys a good conversation, each bear an undying soul and deserve compassion.†   (source)
  • Corporal Whitcomb, an atheist, was a disgruntled subordinate who felt he could do the chaplain's job much better than the chaplain was doing it and viewed himself, therefore, as an underprivileged victim of social inequity.†   (source)
  • I thought you were an atheist.†   (source)
  • My father was an atheist.†   (source)
  • There are no atheists in my outfit!†   (source)
  • 'He doesn't even believe there are atheists in foxholes,' the colonel mocked, and nudged the chaplain in the ribs familiarly.†   (source)
  • An atheist.†   (source)
  • If it doesn't include the time necessary to excuse the atheists from the room and admit the enlisted men.'†   (source)
  • No atheists in foxholes.†   (source)
  • "Lucius is an atheist," Shay said.†   (source)
  • 'What atheists?' he bellowed defensively, his whole manner changing in a flash to one of virtuous and belligerent denial.†   (source)
  • M I C H A EL Ian Fletcher, former tele-atheist and current academic, lived in New Canaan, New Hampshire, in a farmhouse on a dirt road where the mailboxes were not numbered.†   (source)
  • Are there atheists in foxholes?†   (source)
  • Not true; an atheist's got more in common with a Christian, since he believes you can know whether or not God exists-but where a Christian says absolutely, the atheist says absolutely not.†   (source)
  • It was hard to tell who had the more intriguing backstory—Reverend Justus with his drive-in church, or Fletcher—who'd been a television atheist until he'd run across a little girl who could apparently perform miracles and raise the dead.†   (source)
  • It was why, in my father's office, I'd had a breakdown: because even as a confirmed atheist, I sometimes found it just too frightening to think that there might not be a God who was watching out for our greater good.†   (source)
  • At first, putting him on the stand seemed to be a sure way to lose a case—but the guy had a PhD from the Princeton Theological Seminary, and there had to be some merit in putting a former atheist on the stand.†   (source)
  • "I'm an atheist," I said, "but you might as well know right now that my father's a rabbi, and if you have a problem with that I'm sure I can find another physician to talk to me, and I'd really appreciate it if you didn't make a joke right now about Jewish doctors."†   (source)
  • The bad news was that Judge Haig didn't like him very much—and had in the forefront of his mind my witness's former incarnation as an atheist showboat, when I really wanted him to be seen as a grave and credible historian.†   (source)
  • "But now I'm an atheist."†   (source)
  • I was an atheist.†   (source)
  • Are you still an atheist?†   (source)
  • Look, I'm an atheist.†   (source)
  • And Mark answered that in an Indian village the challenge was obvious to all, to stay alive men had to depend on each other, and that everyone came to church, even the agnostics and the atheists.†   (source)
  • Atheists, fools, and madmen!†   (source)
  • He became, because of this, a confirmed atheist and wrote long, closely reasoned letters to famous ministers, among them Bishop Pike.†   (source)
  • If a movie came that was supposed to be Art they all sat solemn and said Look at the Art; if it was supposed to be funny they all went Ha-ha, if it was supposed to be sad they made crying noises; if they were church types they preached at you, if they were atheist types they preached harder than the others.†   (source)
  • But Sartre's allegiance was to what we might call an atheistic existentialism.†   (source)
  • Not believing in the splendor of one's own soul is what we call atheism.†   (source)
  • It's an atheistic, practical, functional doctrine.†   (source)
  • But most amplified were charges of atheism.†   (source)
  • And in the cases of both deities have I often sought justification for atheism.†   (source)
  • If every action in the universe that we thought was random actually conformed to a rational pattern, Dad said, that implied the existence of a divine creator, and he was beginning to rethink his atheistic creed.†   (source)
  • Our Religion Two class—and our Scripture class, too—was an atheistic mob; except for Owen Meany, we were such a negative, anti-everything bunch of morons that we thought Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg were more interesting writers than Tolstoy.†   (source)
  • Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.†   (source)
  • At the time there were a lot of confirmed materialists who did not believe in a God, and who professed to atheism.†   (source)
  • I'm beyond Atheism.†   (source)
  • The Atheism part is easy.†   (source)
  • Then that really is very odd, Chaplain, because I have here another affidavit from Colonel Cathcart that states you once told him atheism was not against the law.†   (source)
  • Atheism is not against the law.†   (source)
  • And so he is good, yes; the minister's talk of how no one but God is perfect is just like atheism, like denying there's sunshine because you've lost your sight.†   (source)
  • What had made him an atheist was a massacre of Jews in his town.†   (source)
  • I once had a patient, a sound atheist, who used to read in the British Museum.†   (source)
  • "All thinking men are atheists," the major said.†   (source)
  • "The atheist," they called him; "the little atheist."†   (source)
  • A year or so after the old atheist's death, Mrs. Anticol found herself a second husband there.†   (source)
  • He forced an atheist to write on the glories of religion.†   (source)
  • The atheist, they called him, the little atheist.†   (source)
  • "We've got an atheist with us."†   (source)
  • So far as I knew, my mother, though not a professed atheist, had never given a thought to religion in her life.†   (source)
  • I am an atheist.†   (source)
  • "It's due west," said the atheist Tansley, holding his bony fingers spread so that the wind blew through them, for he was sharing Mr. Ramsay's evening walk up and down, up and down the terrace.†   (source)
  • But you can ruin him because he's an atheist, or because somebody sued him, or because he slept with some woman, or because he pulls wings off bottleflies.†   (source)
  • But although she never went to the synagogue, ate bread on Passover, sent Mama to the pork butcher where meat was cheaper, loved canned lobster and other forbidden food, she was not an atheist and free-thinker.†   (source)
  • …and lace, though to them all there was something in this of the essence of beauty, which called out the manliness in their girlish hearts, and made them, as they sat at table beneath their mother's eyes, honour her strange severity, her extreme courtesy, like a queen's raising from the mud to wash a beggar's dirty foot, when she admonished them so very severely about that wretched atheist who had chased them—or, speaking accurately, been invited to stay with them—in the Isle of Skye.†   (source)
  • I'm the town badman, Mrs. Kennicott: town atheist, and I suppose I must be an anarchist, too.†   (source)
  • "Drink!" he said returning, "you logic-chopping, chalky-faced saint of an atheist, drink!"†   (source)
  • By conviction an atheist perhaps, he is taken by surprise with moments of extraordinary exaltation.†   (source)
  • Is it correct that most are atheists in England now?†   (source)
  • "I called you an atheist," returned the missionary, harshly.†   (source)
  • It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world.†   (source)
  • "Talking about God again after the manner of atheists," Amory said sharply.†   (source)
  • He had heard some say that the old professor was an atheist freemason.†   (source)
  • "And you will call on that atheist?" she continued, pointing to Hippolyte.†   (source)
  • There is something besides all this, something which the arguments of the atheists can never touch.†   (source)
  • And yet not only the secularists but even atheists joined them in their applause.†   (source)
  • An example, in short, etc. Besides, he was an atheist, like all the rest of those people.†   (source)
  • "I have been an atheist," answered Pierre.†   (source)
  • He who is an atheist is but a bad leader for the human race.†   (source)
  • He knew for certain that his brother was an atheist.†   (source)
  • There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists.†   (source)
  • The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist.'†   (source)
  • The people will meet the atheist and overcome him, and Russia will be one and orthodox.†   (source)
  • It is still as strong and living even in the souls of atheists, who have destroyed everything!†   (source)
  • You believe nothing, atheist!†   (source)
  • The grave's occupant—that is the legend—is an atheist, who declared that if God existed, six forest trees would grow out of her grave.†   (source)
  • —We want no amateur atheists.†   (source)
  • And sometimes, as though the influence of innumerable ancestors, Godfearing and devout, were working in him unconsciously, there seized him a panic fear that perhaps after all it was all true, and there was, up there behind the blue sky, a jealous God who would punish in everlasting flames the atheist.†   (source)
  • He would rather have been a Mormon than an atheist, and apparently they considered him the latter, and were earnest to save his soul.†   (source)
  • Even atheists reproach me with infidelity and anarchists with nihilism because I cannot endure their moral tirades.†   (source)
  • The doctors of divinity bade me consider what I must do to save my soul; but I was not a spiritual hypochondriac any more than a bodily one, and would not trouble myself about that either; so they called me Atheist and went their way.†   (source)
  • He's no better than an atheist.'†   (source)
  • Later she wasn't so positive perhaps; she thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.†   (source)
  • The anti-vivisection lady called the anti-nicotine lady a murderer, a wretch, and an atheist, all of which the anti-nicotine lady endured, merely weeping a little and calling for the police.†   (source)
  • The universal sign of winter was the town handyman—Miles Bjornstam, a tall, thick, red-mustached bachelor, opinionated atheist, general-store arguer, cynical Santa Claus.†   (source)
  • Why, when you yourself are an atheist?†   (source)
  • No, he does not like to recall that there was a time when his society was the object of all the antipathies that freethinkers, atheists, and rationalistic encyclopedists usually reserve for the Church, Catholicism, monks, and the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • …of the sort called "practical"; not once did he cease warring on the post hoc propter hoc conclusions which still make up most medical lore; not once did he fail to be hated by his colleagues, who were respectful to his face, uncomfortable in feeling his ironic power, but privily joyous to call him Mephisto, Diabolist, Killjoy, Pessimist, Destructive Critic, Flippant Cynic, Scientific Bounder Lacking in Dignity and Seriousness, Intellectual Snob, Pacifist, Anarchist, Atheist, Jew.†   (source)
  • Fielding was a blank, frank atheist, but he respected every opinion his friend held: to do this is essential in friendship.†   (source)
  • Atheist!†   (source)
  • If one of us becomes an Atheist, he must needs begin to insist on the prohibition of faith in God by force, that is, by the sword.†   (source)
  • I have grown convinced that nature is full of mockery—you called me an atheist just now, but you know this nature…. why are you laughing again?†   (source)
  • And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation.†   (source)
  • You, have got hold of this lad "—(she pointed to Colia); "you, have turned his head, you have taught him to be an atheist, you don't believe in God, and you are not too old to be whipped, sir!†   (source)
  • However, a week ago, I called in a medical student, Kislorodoff, who is a Nationalist, an Atheist, and a Nihilist, by conviction, and that is why I had him.†   (source)
  • I had often heard of him as a very learned man, but an atheist; and I was very glad of the opportunity of conversing with so eminent and clever a person.†   (source)
  • "Look here, my dear sir," he began, addressing Ptitsin in a very loud tone of voice; "if you have really made up your mind to sacrifice an old man—your father too or at all events father of your wife—an old man who has served his emperor—to a wretched little atheist like this, all I can say is, sir, my foot shall cease to tread your floors.†   (source)
  • Oh, it is not from vanity alone, it is not from feelings of vanity that Russians become Atheists and Jesuits!†   (source)
  • More candid, more exact, more honest, more honourable, and…. although I may show you my weak side, I challenge you all; you atheists, for instance!†   (source)
  • Half an hour ago, prince, it was agreed among us that no one should interrupt, no one should laugh, that each person was to express his thoughts freely; and then at the end, when everyone had spoken, objections might be made, even by the atheists.†   (source)
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