The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.
Atheists are pious people.
I don't believe in atheists.
We are all atheists.
If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
I'm not an atheist, but I'm not a Christian, either.
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