Sentences with phrase «avowed atheist who»

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.

Thus when Prime Minister Julia Gillard (an avowed atheist who makes Nancy Pelosi seem like Margaret Thatcher) nonetheless announced that a «gay marriage» proposal would get a «conscience vote» in the federal parliament, she was accused by her lefter - than - left opponents of being... undemocratic.

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.

DeWitt is now an avowed atheist, and his audiences are made up of religious «nones,» the growing number of Americans who are atheist, agnostic, humanist or just plain disinterested in identifying with a religion.

But what about the avowed atheist anarchists who join, just to disrupt the organization and to be pills.

Both William Olaf Stapledon, early twentieth century philosopher and science fiction author, and Professor Sir David Weatherall, distinguished medical scientist, have strong ties to Liverpool; and Birmingham has historically been home to a wide range of humanist thinkers like John Baskerville, nineteenth century avowed atheist and renown printer, Harold Blackham, first director of the BHA; George Holyoake, nineteenth century writer who coined the term «secularism», sex education pioneer Martin Cole, leading international humanist and philosopher - physicist Sir Harry Stopes - Roe; and writer and comedian Natalie Haynes.

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.