as in idolator
a person who believes that God does not exist
He left the church while in college and became an atheist.
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Khazen, an atheist from an aristocratic Christian family, is funding the effort with help from friends.
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Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
Mainstream Jewish institutions, in the staff’s view, have supplanted an expansive tradition with a narrow ethnic tribalism: Jews can be atheists or Buddhists or connoisseurs of pepperoni pizza, but Israel’s status as a Jewish democracy remains sacred.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
Communists, rationalists, atheists, and secularists are routinely targeted in India's own version of McCarthyism.
—Ananya Vajpeyi, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2015
One 2015 study found that, in the United States, negative attitudes toward vegans rivaled those toward atheists.
—Jishnu Guha-Majumdar, Vox, 8 Aug. 2024
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Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
Mainstream Jewish institutions, in the staff’s view, have supplanted an expansive tradition with a narrow ethnic tribalism: Jews can be atheists or Buddhists or connoisseurs of pepperoni pizza, but Israel’s status as a Jewish democracy remains sacred.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
Communists, rationalists, atheists, and secularists are routinely targeted in India's own version of McCarthyism.
—Ananya Vajpeyi, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2015
One 2015 study found that, in the United States, negative attitudes toward vegans rivaled those toward atheists.
—Jishnu Guha-Majumdar, Vox, 8 Aug. 2024
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“Atheist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atheist. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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