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Atheists in Indonesia experience official discrimination in the context of registration of births and marriages, and the issuance of identity cards. [144] In 2012, Indonesian atheist Alexander Aan was beaten by a mob, lost his job as a civil servant and was sentenced to two and a half years in jail for expressing his views online.
Wood was an atheist [4] [11] in his youth, and stated that he had run-ins with the law by breaking into homes. He later smashed his father's head in with a hammer [12] at the age of 18 in an attempt on his life, claiming a belief that morality was merely societal rules that were beneath him.
Discrimination against atheists in Egypt is mainly the result of the religious establishments in the country, [1] [2] as the laws and policies in Egypt protect religious freedom but punish those who ridicule or insult the Abrahamic religions by words or writing, whereas insulting other non-Abrahamic faiths like Buddhism or Hinduism is not punishable by Egyptian law but insulting Islam ...
Censorship of the Bible occurred in the past and is still going on today. In the 20th century, Christian resistance to the Soviet Union's policy of state atheism occurred through Bible-smuggling. [1] The People's Republic of China, officially an atheist state, engages in Bible burning as a part of antireligious campaigns there. [2]
TJ Kirk (b. 1985), YouTube personality and podcast host known for his YouTube Channel Amazing Atheist [53] Rebecca Watson (b. 1980), author of the blog Skepchick [54] Victor J. Stenger (1935–2014), author of God: The Failed Hypothesis [3] [55] Some writers sometimes classified as new atheists by others have explicitly distanced themselves ...
Seth Andrews (born April 12, 1968) is an American activist, author, and speaker on the subject of atheism.He is the creator and host of The Thinking Atheist online community, podcast, and YouTube channel, as well as the author of four self-published books.
Atheism in the United States is protected under the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause. There are also online churches that have been created by atheists to secure legal rights, to ordain atheist clergy to hold ceremonies, as well as for parody, education, and advocacy. [37] [38] [39] [40]
Professed to being an atheist in his book Tricks of the Mind and described Bertrand Russell's collection of essays Why I Am Not a Christian "an absolute joy." Luis Buñuel (1900–1983): Spanish film-maker, activist of the surrealist movement. Known for his one-liner, "Thank God I'm an atheist." [36] [37] Richard Burton (1925–1984): Welsh ...