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Atheism is Global Atheism

Socio-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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Is an Atheist Unjust? Theism vs. Atheism Debate in the Light of Moral and Epistemic Imperatives [PDF]

, 2015
In the article I reconstruct Karol Wojtyła’s argument against atheism. According to Wojtyła, an atheist is unjust because of not rendering absolute honour to God.
Wojtysiak, Jacek
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Atheism in US and UK Newspapers: Negativity about Non-Belief and Non-Believers

Religions, 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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Ordinary Morality Implies Atheism [PDF]

, 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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The Problem of God’s Existence: In Defence of Skepticism [PDF]

, 2015
There are four main positions in the argument about whether God exists: atheism, theism, agnosticism, and scepticism. From an epistemological standpoint, scepticism is the most rational; even if a decisive argument which would settle the debate has not ...
Ziemiński, Ireneusz
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Atheism and the Apotheosis of Agency

Temenos, 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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Retrospective Analysis of the Development of Scientific Atheism in Uzbekistan (In the 30s of the XXth Century)

Kader, 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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Stigmatization and Validation of Atheism, Literalism, and Non-Literalism in the Discourse over Evolutionary Theory

Secularism 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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Theological Critique of the "New Atheism" [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2016
The paper is devoted to a critical analysis of one of the newest trends of modern Anglo-American freethinking. It is called “new atheism”. The most known spokesmen of this trend are R. Dawkins, D. Dennett, S. Harris and Ch. Hitchens.
Sleptsova Valeriia
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Contrasting irreligious orientation: atheism and secularity in the USA and Scandinavia

Approaching 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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