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American Atheists is a non-profit organization in the United States dedicated to defending the civil liberties of atheists and advocating complete separation of church and state. [1] It provides speakers for colleges, universities, clubs, and the news media.
Discusses R. Laurence Moore and Isaac Kramnick, Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life, Norton, 2018; and John Gray, Seven Types of Atheism, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018, which defines "atheist" as "anyone with no use for a divine mind that has fashioned the world" (a category that includes nontheist religions ...
Atheist activist Founder of American Atheists, campaigner for the separation of church and state: Filed the lawsuit that led the US Supreme Court to ban teacher-led prayer and Bible reading in public schools. [77] Joyce Carol Oates: 1938– Author Author and Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University.
AtheistTV was founded by the American Atheists organisation, was announced on May 7, 2014, [2] and launched on July 29 the same year. [3] It was available through the Roku streaming network, as well as online through the American Atheists website. As of August 2014, in addition to its live streaming channel, Atheist TV offers the following content:
She appeared on Larry King Live in April 2005, [4] Good Morning America in December 2005, MSNBC's Scarborough Country on December 14, 2004, [5] and appeared on Fox News three times in November and December 2003, and MSNBC's Phil Donahue. [1] On May 2, 2008, it was announced on the American Atheists blog that Johnson was leaving her post as ...
Madalyn Murray O'Hair (née Mays; April 13, 1919 – September 29, 1995) [1] was an American activist supporting atheism and separation of church and state.In 1963, she founded American Atheists and served as its president until 1986, after which her son Jon Garth Murray succeeded her.
American atheists, people with an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist.
Writers disagree on how best to define and classify atheism, [8] contesting what supernatural entities are considered gods, whether atheism is a philosophical position or merely the absence of one, and whether it requires a conscious, explicit rejection; however, the norm is to define atheism in terms of an explicit stance against theism.