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…of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. ESTABLISHING RELIGION: While campaigning for his first term, George Bush said "I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should…

…to that of the Girondists, a party of lawyers and atheists, who were now the ruling party.         By the beginning of September, Danton was calling for all able men of Paris to arm themselves and search every house to find any 'enemy of the people'. In his paper, Marat…

…with ancient beliefs. Taoism and Buddhism were brought by the Chinese in the fourth century A.D. Christianity arrived in the area from the west in the late 1700's. The government today is officially atheist and discourages all forms of religion. During the life…

…of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. ESTABLISHING RELIGION: While campaigning for his first term, George Bush said 'I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should…

…campaigning for his first term, George Bush said 'I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots.' Bush has not retracted, commented on, or clarified this statement, in spite of requests to do so. According…

…it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer".3 Nobody could reasonably dissent from this conclusion. Paley went on to insist that this is exactly what the atheist does when contemplating the works of nature, for "every indication of contrivance, every…

…him and his wife is contrasted to a vision he had early in the film of a celestial woman, an angel or the Virgin, which was illusory and ridiculed by his wife as a hallucination. As in all existentialist thinking, Christian and atheist alike…

…still constituted a virtual establishment. From the presidential campaign of 1796 at least, New England clergymen denounced him from their pulpits as an atheist and as anti-Christ…

…methods from science and natural philosophy that would replace religion as the means of knowing nature and destiny of humanity; these men were materialists, pantheists, or atheists. Other enlightened thinkers, such as Pierre Bayle, Voltaire, David Hume, Jean Le…

…months later, from the town of Bristol, Cromwell sent more good tidings to Parliament. Having just concluded a storming of the town, Cromwell wrote, "This is none other than the work of God. He must be a very atheist that doth not acknowledge it." After…