In what would prove to be the culmination of a long and celebrated career, the late and legendary character actor Harry Dean Stanton stars as Lucky, a 90 - year - old small - town iconoclast and avowed atheist who, although surprisingly healthy despite his cigarette habit, nevertheless finds himself pondering his own mortality with a certain amount of unease. (rogerebert.com)
And even for family members, I think religious people are saddened (sometimes to the extent of going into depression) as much as avowed atheist. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
There have been twenty - eight countries in world history that can be confirmed to have been ruled by regimes with avowed atheists at the helm (NOT Including Stalin, Mao), These twenty - eight historical regimes have been ruled by eighty - nine atheists, of whom more than half have engaged in democidal acts of the sort committed by Stalin and Mao... (religion.blogs.cnn.com)