How to Use atheism in a Sentence

atheism

noun
  • And there will also be those who are very religious about their atheism.
    — Mike Woodruff, Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Both my mother’s love for Christmas and her atheism rubbed off on me.
    — Kyla Jenee Lacey, The Root, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Richard Spencer’s atheism would win him no friends in this audience.
    — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Soviet atheism failed to erase it.
    — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • This is followed by the atheism that makes a religion out of science.
    — Tim Crane, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018
  • His atheism makes hope so much harder and the wheel of history so much less forgiving.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 11 May 2018
  • Oddly enough, this is where Clark’s career in atheism started.
    — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2021
  • But most do not see atheism as an identity to seek community around.
    — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The opposite is true in a country such as the Netherlands, where atheism is widespread.
    — Bryan Walsh, Time, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Lewes used Spinoza to confirm his atheism, while Marian used him to question her faith.
    — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • And, certainly, your atheism makes the priest issue a nonissue.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The government cannot promote atheism over religion, that’s true.
    — Jay Wexler, Vox, 14 June 2019
  • This explains the variation in levels of atheism across societies as well as shifts of views across one's lifetime.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2011
  • My sister is very proud of her atheism and makes sure to mock my beliefs with little digs at every opportunity.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2021
  • While atheism and agnosticism are among the most common, there are some differences between those terms.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Even reason itself—the vaunted foundation of atheism—depends on faith.
    — Michael Guillen, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Which is to say, homosexuality grew up, the same way atheism grew up, the same way a great many subcultures grow up.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 10 Jan. 2018
  • That unified force was a God too massive, too inhuman, to resist with the atheism in which I had been brought up.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2017
  • In reality, many people think of agnosticism as a less stringent form of atheism.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Most forms of organized atheism are attempts to fashion God surrogates.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 4 Nov. 2018
  • Her counterargument, essentially, is that his atheism, too, boils down to a kind of feeling.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Others have raised concern about human rights in a country where women cannot drive and where atheism is a crime sometimes punished with a public caning.
    — Ben Hubbard, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2016
  • The charges once lobbed against Christians — atheism, superstition — were turned against pagan people.
    — Tom Bissell, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
  • In truth, the show revels in skewering both sides, taking more shots at Robin’s atheism than Nate’s faith, for example.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 18 June 2019
  • In later life Franklin also cloaked his militant teenage atheism in the vague mantle of Deism, which was more publicly palatable.
    — Sam Kean, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018
  • This is not a Republican-versus-Democrat kind of thing; practical atheism is a plague.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 10 May 2021
  • Early critics of anesthesia worried that, by taking away the Biblical curse of pain in childbirth, ether would lead to atheism.
    — Ellen Wayland-Smith, Longreads, 21 Mar. 2018
  • In the United States, at least, the social stigma around atheism may have caused people to choose to hide their non-belief, however.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 9 Aug. 2017
  • State atheism led to the persecution and devastation of Cuban churches.
    — Aron Ravin, National Review, 12 July 2021
  • Bob Dylan and atheism—had been driving 100 miles an hour in opposite directions.
    — Jeff Slate, Esquire, 30 Oct. 2017

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