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The Great Hymn to the Aten is the longest of a number of hymn-poems written to the sun-disk deity Aten. Composed in the middle of the 14th century BC, it is varyingly attributed to the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Akhenaten or his courtiers, depending on the version, who radically changed traditional forms of Egyptian religion by replacing them with ...
Peter Buck (1956–): Lead guitarist and member of American rock band R.E.M. [20] Geoffrey Burgon (1941–2010): British composer notable for his television and film themes. [21] Mike Burkett (1967–): (a.k.a. Fat Mike) American bassist and vocalist for the punk rock band NOFX. Many of their lyrics include atheist views.
A similar argument was discussed in the books The God Delusion and The Atheist Delusion. [84] [85] In December 2007 the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was credited with spearheading successful efforts in Polk County, Florida, to dissuade the Polk County School Board from adopting new science standards on evolution. The issue was raised ...
The Five-Percent emblem, also known as the Universal Flag of Islam (I-Self Lord and Master). [1] Clarence 13X, the founder of the Nation of Gods and Earths. The Five-Percent Nation, sometimes referred to as the Nation of Gods and Earths (NGE/NOGE) or the Five Percenters, is an Afro-American Nationalist movement influenced by Islam that was founded in 1964 in the Harlem section of the borough ...
Diagoras of Melos. Diagoras of Melos ( Greek: Διαγόρας ὁ Μήλιος) or Diagoras "the Atheist" was a Greek poet and sophist of the 5th century BC. Throughout antiquity, he was regarded as an atheist, but very little is known for certain about what he actually believed. Anecdotes about his life indicate that he spoke out against ...
Lars Ulrich. " The God That Failed " is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica from their 1991 self-titled album (often called "the Black Album"). The song was never released as a single, but was the first of the album's songs to be heard by the public. It is one of Metallica's first original releases to be tuned a half step down .
"God Save the King" (Afrikaans: God Red die Koning, God Red die Koningin when a Queen) was a co-national anthem of South Africa from 1938 until 1957, [112] when it was formally replaced by "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika" as the sole national anthem. [112] The latter served as a sort of de facto co-national anthem alongside the former until 1938. [112]
The 2015 Pew Religious Landscape survey reported that as of 2014, 22.8% of the American population is religiously unaffiliated, atheists made up 3.1% and agnostics made up 4% of the US population. In 2020, the World Religion Database estimated that the countries with the highest percentage of atheists were North Korea and Sweden.