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Atheism is Global Atheism

open access: yesSocio-Historical Examination of Religion and Ministry, 2020
Accepting Diller’s challenge to justify “global atheism,” despite its supposed crushing burden of knowledge, this paper argues that the global atheist bears no extraordinary burden. In fact, all atheism is global atheism, as an atheist lacks any and all god-beliefs; while a local theist, who accepts one of the myriad god-beliefs over all others, has a ...
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Pojęcie Boga (w obronie filozofii Spinozy)

open access: yesLogos i Ethos, 2023
The Polish translation from Russian of V. Solovjev’s article (1897). Solovyov justifies Spinoza before prof. A. Vvedensky who accused the author of Ethics of atheism.
Włodzimierz S. Sołowjow
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Ordinary Morality Implies Atheism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
I present a "moral argument" for the nonexistence of God. Theism, I argue, can’t accommodate an ordinary and fundamental moral obligation acknowledged by many people, including many theists.
Maitzen, Stephen
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Atheism and the Apotheosis of Agency

open access: yesTemenos, 2006
This paper suggests that biological factors ought to be considered in attempting to explain distributions of theism and atheism across populations. In advancing our argument, we consider two recent efforts to explain atheism.
BENSON SALER, CHARLES A. ZIEGLER
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Atheism in US and UK Newspapers: Negativity about Non-Belief and Non-Believers

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Atheists are among the most disliked “religious” groups in the United States, but the origins of this aversion remain poorly understood. Because the media are an important source of public attitudes, we analyze coverage of atheism and atheists in ...
A. Maurits van der Veen, Erik Bleich
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Stigmatization and Validation of Atheism, Literalism, and Non-Literalism in the Discourse over Evolutionary Theory

open access: yesSecularism and Nonreligion, 2018
This article explores how atheism, literalism, and non-literalism are validated and stigmatized in public discourse over evolutionary theory. Through an ethnographic content analysis of 1,028 letters to the editor, I examine how authors frame the ...
Eric O. Silva
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Atheists’ Challenge to Cosmological Arguments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper I intend to identify some points of disagreement between theism and atheism. I will try to point out three epistemological clashes occurring in the controversial treatment of cosmological arguments.
Clavier, Paul
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Contrasting irreligious orientation: atheism and secularity in the USA and Scandinavia

open access: yesApproaching Religion, 2012
Atheism and secularity are not static, fixed orientations. Rather, atheism and secularity are contoured, malleable, and deeply shaped by cultural and social forces.
Phil Zuckerman
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Retrospective Analysis of the Development of Scientific Atheism in Uzbekistan (In the 30s of the XXth Century)

open access: yesKader, 2023
The article provides a retrospective analysis of the ways, mechanisms, and methods of development of atheism in Uzbekistan in the 30s of the twentieth century.
Dilmurod Ernazarov
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Analytic atheism: A cross-culturally weak and fickle phenomenon? [PDF]

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2018
Religious belief is a topic of longstanding interest to psychological science, but the psychology of religious disbelief is a relative newcomer. One prominently discussed model is analytic atheism, wherein cognitive reflection, as measured with the ...
Will M. Gervais   +11 more
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