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…there was a priest, the major, lieutenant Rinaldi, and the captain. The major was an atheist and a very blunt impolite man. The captain was also an impolite man; he was constantly making fun of the priest. Rinaldi was mild in comparison to the others but he was always…

…a sciences and the Bible contained warnings against star-worship. None of the leading astrologers seem to been atheists or star-worshippers. They represented almost every shade of religious opinion, from Roman Catholic to Quaker, but they all claimed…

…://www.religioustolerance.org/spanking.htm [25 February 2001]) On the same site, a woman we only have named as Sharon tells us her worrying view of the subject: ‘I have heard terrible stories of children becoming spoiled, drug using, atheists if they aren’t spanked…

…of the youth in all of Athens, and he does not believe in the gods of the state and has other new divinities of his own. They then said that he was an absolute atheist. To this Socrates said Meletus did not know what he was doing, for he would never alter his ways…

…caused tension because it was set up around a motive to teach students to be obedient to the Communist Party and to be Atheist among other things. Also students were assigned jobs when they graduated and this caused considerable stress on them because they had…

…for one to proceed by analysing the larger issue, if theism is true or false. Reading Smith (1979) is one way of doing this, and that leaves one an atheist - and a basis for dealing with life as it is. Footnotes 1.For a similar statement, see…

…and developed. "Arguments to Prove the Existence of God" was his title to fame. The famous argument said that every man has an idea of God; even atheists, who deny the existence of God, must admit that they have mental conceptions of such a being. The idea of God…

…“led to the official policy of eradication of religion in the country. Churches had no legal status and their property was confiscated. Private religious education of any kind was strictly forbidden” (Russia). The Soviet Union was officially and atheistic…

…and has been the central focus of India's spiritual life. In some perceptions, Hinduism has been called 'atheistic'. In other perceptions, and this is perhaps the more common one, it is labeled 'polytheistic'. The term 'polytheism' acknowledges…

…being eternal objects in unchanging motion were common knowledge. Thinking otherwise was considered Atheistic. (North, p.78) Fellow famous Renaissance man, and Plato's pupil, Aristotle, was also a very important figure. Born in Stagira in 384, Aristotle…