Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.
One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency.
The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.
But in America, if you're an atheist, you lose.
The god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that counts in America is to call into question the proposition that everyone has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
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