Title: Atheism
Content: that: "The man who is unacquainted with theism is an atheist because he does not believe in a god. This category would also include the child with the conceptual capacity to grasp the issues involved, but who is still unaware of those issues. The fact that this child does not believe in god qualifies him as an atheist." "Implicit atheism" is "the absence of theistic belief without a conscious rejection of it" and "explicit atheism" is the conscious rejection of belief. For the purposes of his paper on "philosophical atheism", Ernest Nagel contested including mere absence of theistic belief as

Title: Discrimination against atheists
Content: public life—even the guilds and the universities were religious organizations. ... Even if an exceptional man could have achieved the objectivity necessary to question the nature of religion and the existence of God, he would have found no support in either the philosophy or the science of his time." As governmental authority rested on the notion of divine right, it was threatened by those who denied the existence of the local god. Those labeled as atheist, including early Christians and Muslims, were as a result targeted for legal persecution. During the early modern period, the term "atheist" was used as

Title: Sherwin Wine
Content: leading a congregation that did not recognize God. The "Detroit Free Press" ran an article in December 1964 with the headline "Suburban Rabbi: 'I Am an Atheist.'" This was followed by stories in "Time" magazine and the "New York Times." Wine explained that his views were not precisely atheistic. Rather, reflecting his acceptance of the basic outlook of the logical positivists, he declared that it was not possible empirically to prove or disprove the existence of God and, therefore, the concept was meaningless. He referred to this stance as "ignosticism" rather than atheism. The Masonic temple in Birmingham in which

Title: Negative and positive atheism
Content: no God. He categorizes himself as a "de facto atheist" but "not" a "strong atheist" on this scale. Within negative atheism, philosopher Anthony Kenny further distinguishes between agnostics, who find the claim "God exists" uncertain, and theological noncognitivists, who consider all talk of gods to be meaningless. Jacques Maritain used the negative/positive phrases as early as 1949, but with a different meaning and in the context of a strictly Catholic apologist. Goparaju Ramachandra Rao (1902–1975), better known by his nickname Gora, was an Indian social reformer, anti-caste activist, and atheist. He proposed a philosophy he called "positive atheism", which treated

Title: James Randi
Content: one of whom killed the other, and yet managed to populate the Earth without committing incest." He writes that, compared to the Bible, ""The Wizard of Oz" is more believable. And much more fun." Clarifying his view of atheism, Randi has written "I've said it before: there are two sorts of atheists. One sort claims that there is no deity, the other claims that there is no evidence that proves the existence of a deity; I belong to the latter group, because if I were to claim that no god exists, I would have to produce evidence to establish that

Question: Which writer said, " An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support?"
Answer: John Buchan