Sentences with phrase «identify as atheist»

If, on the other hand you don't hold any strong religious beliefs and possibly identify as atheist, then never mock your partner for their faith.

This concept does not represent all people who self - identify as atheist.

Why do you assume so many commenters here identify as atheist?

I think it is cool to still be a «Christian», of course (well, only certain types)-- hell, I don't identify as an Atheist — it is an epiphenom for me (see this post) and I too am viewed differently by many — see my picture I drew here.

The definition of atheism is «the absence of theistic beliefs, not the belief in not believing» but the vast majority of those who identify as atheist practice it as a religion.

Almost none of the worlds prison inmates identify themselves as atheist / no - religion.

Actually, the most recent study I can find shows that while about the same percentage identify as Christian (80 %) in prison as in the population at large, a much smaller percentage in prison identify as atheist (0.2 % of the prison population).

In truth, the most recent study one can find shows that while about the same percentage identify as Christian (80 %) in prison as in the population at large, a much smaller percentage in prison identify as atheist (0.2 % of the prison population).

I am a physical scientist by profession, and identify myself as atheist.

@MKS, the American population that identify as atheist is actually 1.6 %.

Approximately 5.2 % identify themselves as atheist.

I have no data to back this, but I presume that if someone were indoctrinated into religion and then escaped from it, they may be more likely to self identify as an atheist or agnostic and still score better than someone never exposed to it in the first place, who might self identify as «nothing in particular.»

And, you did tell us that you're certain there's no God when you chose to identify yourself as an atheist rather than an agnostic.

We would love to, but there are Ten Commandments monuments in our pubic schools, «In God We Trust» on our money, and we are told to keep quite every time we identify ourselves as atheists... and now you are guilty of doing it to us.

Pew's 2012 data is 2.3 % for those self - identifying as atheist.

And really, what discrimination do you get for identifying as atheists?

I find that to be the primary (only) reason someone identifies as atheist.

Hmmm, a Pew study shows that about 12 % of the population identifies as atheist or agnostic.

I identified as an atheist at the age of 16.

Many people who self - identify as atheists don't claim that there is no God.

I identified as an atheist at a young age.

Among agnostics, 22.5 percent went on to identify as atheists in 2014, while another 18.9 percent identified as nothing in particular.

Though 11 percent of college grads identified as atheists or agnostics compared to 4 percent of those with a high school diploma or less, 75 percent of those with college degrees still said that they were affiliated with a religion, compared to 76 percent of those with some college education and 78 percent with a high school diploma or less.

Most of you identify as atheists but don't really practice it.

The president's comments on the matter came during a town hall event in Maryland, when a questioner who identified herself as an atheist pressed Obama on statements he made as a candidate in 2008 suggesting he was against permitting discriminatory hiring among faith - based organizations backed by taxpayer dollars.

I would wear this, even though I feel my lack of belief warrants identifying myself as an atheist.

I think that Atheists are greatly under - represented in polls because people don't want to self - identify as Atheists because there are negative societal pressures.

If you are serious about dating someone who identifies as Atheist or Agnostic, then check out the sites listed and consider joining a few for free.

As of 2014, 3.1 % of Americans identified as atheist — which Merriam - Webster defines as «a person who does not believe... (read more)

As of 2014, 3.1 % of Americans identified as atheist — which Merriam - Webster defines as «a person who does not believe in the... (read more)

Although all participants completed the booklet in its entirety, scores on the RLI for participants identified as atheist (indicating between a five and seven on the DTAS) were not used, as the items were not applicable, and thus not valid or discriminating («strongly disagree» was indicated for all questions).

Not exact matches

It's likely that the majority of them fall into the agnostic category of agnostic atheists, as identified in wikipedia.

And honestly saying you believe in God and self - identify as Christian doesn't mean you actually Lean on God for anything so they say they're Christian but living as an Atheist.

Like Sagan, Dawkins, and Tyson I identified myself to an Atheist as an Agnostic Atheist even though I believe a possibility of a «theory of deity» based upon evidence is infinitesimally small.

So if we mean by «atheists» not just those who self - identify as such but those who say they do not believe in God or a universal spirit, atheists got an average of 18.5 questions right.

Have came across termbe been used here to refer to people such as; — He was A Christian Atheist... or was A Jew Atheist... Or other way of identifying some one they say; — He was American White Christian Atheist.

This shows up in the relatively low total number of people self - identifying as SBNR and atheist / agnostic in the polls compared with what I see in the people I meet.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

While I'm becoming more and more atheistic every day, I'm also less and less inclined to identify myself as such because the world is starting to view the atheists as d - bags.

Overall, a much larger percentage of the religiously unaffiliated (a category that includes many atheists) identify as liberal than conservative.

The historian Richard J Evans wrote that, by 1939, 95 % of Germans still called themselves Protestant or Catholic, while 3.5 % identified as «gottgläubig», i.e., someone who still believes in God, although without having any religious affiliation, and 1.5 % atheist.

I don't think there are truly and real atheists in the world, just those that identify different forces as God.

I just hope people realize that separation of church and state isn't just good for Agnostics, Muslims, Hindus, Atheists, Hebrews, and everyone else, but between all the difference sects that identify as Christian.

This story actually does make me wonder what percentage of those who identify as Jewish are in fact atheists.

I hate the term atheist because it is taking on another meaning and you shouldn't have to identify yourself as not believing in invisible pink noodle monsters on other planes of existence.

Oh, and in case you didn't realize it, there is a good reason for all those church backsliders and atheists to self - identify as Christian in jail, isn't there?

As my knowledge of the Christian and atheist landscape grew, so I began to identify where the key battlegrounds lay.

They are just afraid to be identified as such because being an atheist in this country in the 21st century is like being treated as a leper during Jesus» time.

Tom... you... are aware that the number of people who identify themselves as «atheist» VASTLY under represents the prison population compared to their numbers in society in general, yes?

Unsurprisingly organized religions identify «anti-theists» as an enemy and this baggage holds some people back from self - identifying as «atheist».