How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.
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When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.
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.
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.
I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.