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Parent topics
- Religion [r]: Belief in, and systems of, worshipful dedication to a superhuman power or belief in the ultimate nature of existence. [e]
Subtopics
- Discrimination against atheism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Naturalism [r]: A concept with the view that ultimately nothing resists explanation by the methods characteristic of the natural sciences. [e]
- Problem of evil [r]: Add brief definition or description
Prominent deceased atheists
- Diagoras [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Critias [r]: A dialogue of Plato. [e]
- Leucippus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Democritus [r]: (c. 494 - c. 404 BC) Greek natural philosopher who promulgated the atomic theory, which asserted that the universe is composed of two elements: the atoms and the void in which they exist and move. [e]
- Baron d'Holbach [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Karl Marx [r]: 19th century philosopher and economist. Creator of a theoretical foundation for Communism. [e]
- Arthur Schopenhauer [r]: (1788-1860) German philosopher, author of Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (1819 und 1844) (The World as Will and Representation/Idea). [e]
- Friedrich Nietzsche [r]: (1844–1900) German philosopher and writer who developed key concepts of morality, religion and the contemporary culture of Europe. [e]
- Bertrand Russell [r]: (1872–1970) British analytic philosopher, logician, essayist and political activist. [e]
- Sigmund Freud [r]: (1856 – 1939) Pioneering psychiatrist who developed psychoanalysis. [e]
- Clarence Darrow [r]: Infamous American lawyer who defended John Scopes, the teacher in the Scopes Monkey Trial, and the murderers Leopold and Loeb. [e]
- Ayn Rand [r]: (1905-82) Russian-born author of The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957); , considered the founder of a philosophical movement called Objectivism [e]
- Richard Feynman [r]: (1918–1988) An American physicist known for his scientific acumen, humor, and charismatic charm; drummer and painter of scandalous paintings; member of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, then Professor of Theoretical Physics at California Institute of Technology; Nobel Prize winner in Physics, 1965; staff, Manhattan Project [e]
- Carl Sagan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Douglas Adams [r]: (1952–2001) English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician, best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. [e]
- Bruce Lee [r]: Chinese martial arts artist and movie actor. [e]
Prominent living atheists
- Julian Baggini [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Chalmers [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Dawkins [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sam Harris [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Stephen Hawking [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Christopher Hitchens [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Colin McGinn [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Michel Onfray [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Searle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Agnosticism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- God [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Humanism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Secularism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Theism [r]: Add brief definition or description