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…are atheists." 8 "I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking…

…be banned because God says so. First, this is only claimed by SOME anti-abortioners. There are a sizable number of people who believe it is wrong on OTHER than religious grounds, there are even ATHEISTS against abortion. But the argument itself is wrong even…

…to believe in. "Even atheist's sometime worry about the moral consequences for society if religion disappears altogether" (Johnson 20). Other world religions have formed their own ideas that suggest how life was created. For example, in Buddhism, they believe…

…he thought from his atheistic perspective. Outnumbered, maimed, and desperate, he began to recite a barely-remembered prayer from early church visits and noted that despite angry responses the perpetrators receded until he was totally alone. His prayer…

…Cross. In his teens, Browning discovered Shelley, adopting the author's confessionalism in poetry. His first poems Browning wrote under the influence of Shelley, who also inspired him to adopt atheist principles for a time. At the age of 16, he began to study…

…workforce. The Soviet economy in the period 1930-53 acquired Stalinist traits such as an emphasis on energy output, defence and centralised command planning. Other features of 'Stalinism' included little emphasis on religion-Stalin was himself an atheist…

…is not sustained by the thoughts of others but by his own selfish need to create, to unleash the buildings that reside inside his soul. Roark, an atheist, treats his work with the respect and reverence that other men lavish over God. To him, insincerity towards one's…

…of the all-religious "Good" and "Evil". Ida is a complete atheist, a hedonist believing only in the pleasure of life and the now and then, as Rose tells Pinkie: " 'You believe in things. Like Hell. But you can see she don't believe a thing.' She said bitterly…

…is a famous French existentialist. Not only was he an existentialist, but an atheist as well. He asserted that God does not exist, and that the only human condition is that of free choice. Sigmund Freud revolutionized unconscious drives in the 20th century…

…Britain and France and Germany entered the age of Doubt, in the singular and with a capital D.' Agnosticism, the condition of mind which Huxley first defined in seeking to distance himself from the atheists (whose ideology, following events in France…