Sentences with phrase «as avowed atheist»

The difference between them and Hawking is that Hawking, as an avowed atheist, does not believe what he said.

[7] In turn, Bentham taught John Stuart Mill, one of the first men in Europe to be raised as an avowed atheist.

Not exact matches

You don't start with an avowed atheist (Jim B.) who apparently was neither sober nor present when the phrase «as we understood Him» was suggested and then substituted in Step Three and Step Eleven.

There is certainly a strongly held view, exemplified by popular scientists such as Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at Harvard and an avowed atheist, that there is no such thing as free will in the sense of an independent personal entity.

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.

She does, however, condemn the conviction of those who are certain about facets of existence which by their nature can't be known (God, Heaven, one's soul, etc.)-- and that includes not only evangelical Christians such as Rick Warren but avowed atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens as well.