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Contemporary Examples

Just as no unbeliever may be barred from federal service for his atheism, no true believer may be excluded for his abiding faith.

She is not public about her atheism, just as many of us are not public about our faith.

atheism is highest in Europe, where there are established churches involved in the political process.

In 2009 he published a book defaming Hitchens and Richard Dawkins because he was irked by their bellicose brand of atheism.

There is little evidence to support the notion that evolution is the result of an assumption of atheism.

Historical Examples

An attempt to exclude him on charges of atheism and blasphemy failed.

For at bottom, atheism is either a fad or a trade or a fatuity.

Mr. Saunders, so far as his atheism was concerned, was suggested by Professor Clifford.

From the peddling-box, therefore, I turned even as I did from atheism.

atheism and downright infidelity, as a general rule, are never very popular.

British Dictionary definitions for atheism Expand

rejection of belief in God or gods

Word Origin

C16: from French athisme, from Greek atheos godless, from a-1 + theos god

Word Origin and History for atheism Expand

1580s, from French athisme (16c.), from Greek atheos "without god" (see atheist). A slightly earlier form is represented by atheonism (1530s) which is perhaps from Italian atheo "atheist." Ancient Greek atheotes meant "ungodliness."

atheism in Culture Expand

Denial that there is a God. (Compare agnosticism.)

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