How to Use atheist in a Sentence

atheist

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  • Another student asked what an atheist is and (the teacher).
    — Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 20 May 2024
  • The claim that atheists were the cause of these holocausts is false.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Sami Al-Asady met an atheist for the first time in eighth grade.
    — AZCentral.com, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Meanwhile, the number of atheists has risen from 1% to 3%.
    — P.z. | Istanbul, The Economist, 1 July 2019
  • Nathan Bigler of Salt Lake City is an atheist with teen children.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Just like people of faith, not all atheists believe the same things.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
  • For starters, Luther was, of course, anything but a godless atheist.
    — Paul Kengor, National Review, 9 Sep. 2020
  • No dice — Saint John the Forerunner knows Clarence is an atheist.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Lucky Harry Dean Stanton plays a desert-dwelling atheist staring down the end of life.
    — Kevin Crust, latimes.com, 24 Sep. 2017
  • Greg Lockwood, who presides over a church in Waldo, was a staunch atheist for much of his life.
    — Anne Kniggendorf, kansascity.com, 13 May 2017
  • As a 93-year-old atheist, Scalfari will find out soon enough if hell exists.
    — Judie Vegh, cleveland.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Believers and atheists alike could agree that would be mean.
    — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Think of it as scientific proof of the old saying that there are no atheists in the foxhole.
    — Bryan Walsh, Time, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Across the street from the convention center, a mix of gay rights activists and atheists teamed to protest Westboro.
    — Monroe Trombly, Cincinnati.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Ms Lankesh was also an atheist and a staunch left-winger, whose views had earned her enemies far and wide.
    — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Like someone once said, there are no atheists in foxholes.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Anyone with half of a brain knows there are far more atheists on death row than Lutherans or Baptists.
    — Wired Letters Department, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2006
  • There are as many of them as atheists and agnostics combined (7% each).
    — Peter Smith, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • This person, an atheist, was invited to a bar mitzvah and didn’t want to go.
    — Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • This person, an atheist, was invited to a Bar Mitzvah and didn’t want to go.
    — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The Bolsheviks were atheists, and religion was expunged from the whole of the new Russian state.
    — Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Certified atheists will take care of your pets if you are swept away on Judgment Day.
    — Author: Shannyn Moore, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 Sep. 2017
  • The fire station itself was under threat, and people began to pray, even the atheists among them.
    — Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2020
  • The group has been linked to killings and attacks on secular academics and atheist bloggers in Bangladesh.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Savarkar was an atheist, but that was no obstacle to his mission.
    — Hartosh Singh Bal, Foreign Affairs, 12 Apr. 2024
  • There is an adage that says there are no atheists in foxholes — even skeptics will pray when facing death.
    — Emma Goldberg Desiree Rios, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Tolkien, in turn, was the one who convinced Lewis—an atheist in his youth—to convert to Christianity.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Apr. 2024
  • Mark and his twin brother are atheists like me, and their older brother is worried for our souls.
    — Sara Eckel, Longreads, 1 June 2018
  • In that moment, I was surprised by my favorite atheist counting on a lucky charm.
    — Ana Marie Cox, SI.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • First, what makes an individual more or less likely to identify as an atheist?
    — Katie Corcoran, The Conversation, 6 May 2024

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