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…religious person in North America, there are many non-religious or secular people. A large number of adults who have liberal religious beliefs treat euthanasia as a morally desirable option in some cases. There are also many secularist, atheist, and agnostics…

…of one of Dostoyevsky’s contemporaries, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Nietzsche, a German philosopher and classical scholar, was also a precursor to Existentialism. Like Raskolnikov, he was an atheist who promoted a sort of “master morality.” He opposed…

…. Many argued that Nietzche was an atheist though what he had stressed was something different. Nietzche was saying that the belief in God no longer exists among the people. His argument was this, “for contemporary Christians, belief in god has no power…

…as atheistic. But on closer examination of the actual views of God in the two religions, we can see that they are distinct but related, showing evolvement of one into the other. In Hinduism, the dualistic idea of an “impersonal Absolute (Brahman) and the personal…

…the various sciences and philosophies were part of one overarching, which, when completed, which would give a true and total picture of the universe and man." (Communist Manifesto, Marx (Francis B. Randal), page 15) Marx was an atheist, and believed that science…

…every person on this planet today. You may now be thinking that I am an atheist, however, much to your surprise I am not. I was baptized into the Lutheran Church, as a newborn, but I do not affiliate with them any longer. Now if you were to ask me my faith…

…and twentieth centuries he became a renowned and controversial philosopher, atheist, publicist and political reformer. He is perhaps, the most famous and most passionate rationalist of the century, he is a polymath whose gifts lay in clear and witty exposition…

…be cautious however as an atheist sceptic may try to deny the legitimacy of this question. How can we argue over a concept when we cannot truly define what that concept is anyway? How can the answer ‘yes, he does’ solve anything when the idea of ‘God…

…speech to the jury, and formalize the definitions of the charges brought against him. Socrates clearly has a plan here; he plans to defeat the charges with early formal logic. He figures that by proving logically that he is not an atheist, that the trial…

…in his treatment of religion. Freud defined psychology from the outset as antithetical to religion, specifically Christianity. “Only theological liberals found allies among the atheistic psychologists”. Calling religion a “universal, obsessional…