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…or not to do good. Religion’s role is to provide the ultimate consequences that stem from our action. This is the idea that atheists do not hold true for. For them the cycle of life ends at death, there is no such thing as an after life. Their thinking allows…

…or patronizing attitude. They have assumed that their religion is the only way to salvation and have often made those who cannot (or will not) accept conversion feel like pitiable lost souls. They believe Atheists and the people of other Faiths are ignorant, misguided…

…Throughout his work Nietzsche makes extensive use of the term “nihilism”. In texts from the tradition prior to Nietzsche, the term connotes a necessary connection between atheism and the subsequent disbelief in values. It was held the atheist regarded the moral…

…that nothing moved God because God has always existed. Still, to prove his first argument to atheists, Aquinas must accompany it by another argument that proves God has existed forever. Then God would not need to have been moved since He would always…

…be proved that there are no contradictions”(Kung, Hans, Does God Exist?, p.32). There is good and evil in this world. Whatever is considered good, had to come from someone, somewhere. The same rule applies for evil. There are, however, atheists in the world…

…in Iran, reacted against the atheistic policies of the Khalqi leaders. The mass imprisonments and indiscriminate executions, outraged the population. Many soldiers took their arms join the resistance (Clifford pg. 100) Finally, in December 1979, Soviet…

…, ironically, Tarrou is an atheist, “can one be a saint without God…that’s the problem, in fact the only problem.” 12The question is, therefore: What is it that makes a saint? First, a saint is a holy man who has attained peace in heaven and second a saint becomes…

…tricks her into removing her artificial leg. After putting her in a helpless position, he reveals that he too is an atheist, that he does not really love her, and that he is actually a pervert and an impostor who collects women's artificial body…

…the atheist and neither is he trying to convince the atheist that God exists. The ontological argument differs from other arguments in favour of God as it is an ‘a priori’ deductive argument, a priori meaning that can come to a conclusion by the use of reason…

…definite Christian potential but it will not include the atheistic tyranny of communist regimes of the past. The totalitarian type of communism that we have seen would not have been possible if the church had not rejected the social gospel from…