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Ashland University ( BA) South Texas College of Law ( LLB) Madalyn Murray O'Hair ( née Mays; April 13, 1919 – September 29, 1995) [ 1] was an American activist supporting atheism and separation of church and state. In 1963, she founded American Atheists and served as its president until 1986, after which her son Jon Garth Murray succeeded her.
The term atheist (from the French athée ), in the sense of "one who ... denies the existence of God or gods", [11] predates atheism in English, being first found as early as 1566, [12] and again in 1571. [13] Atheist as a label of practical godlessness was used at least as early as 1577. [14]
He was the Australian Humanist of the Year in 1987. [3] Adithya Menon (born 1974): Indian actor. [4] Joe Ahearne (born 1963): British television screenwriter and director. [5] Javed Akhtar (born 1945): Indian Screenwriter and Poet. [6] Mikael Åkerfeldt (born 1974): Swedish musician, singer-songwriter, and producer.
Alain de Botton (born 1969), author of Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion, 2012. [74] Daniel Dennett (born 1942): American author and philosopher. [75] Marquis de Sade (1740–1814): French aristocrat, revolutionary and writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography. [76]
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which in its most general form is the belief that at least ...
Julian Baggini (1968–): British writer specialising in the philosophy of personal identity, author of Atheism: A Very Short Introduction. [10] Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876): Russian philosopher, writer and anarchist. [11] Roland Barthes (1915–1980): French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic and semiotician.
Atheism is, in a broad sense, the lack of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is simply the absence of belief that any deities exist. This is a compilation of the various lists of atheists with articles on Wikipedia by category. Living people in these lists are those whose atheism is relevant to their notable ...
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 ...