How to Use atheism in a Sentence

atheism

noun

• People are tired of atheism and the atheistic view of life.
  — al, 13 Dec. 2021
• 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
• This is followed by the atheism that makes a religion out of science.
  — Tim Crane, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018
• The opposite is true in a country such as the Netherlands, where atheism is widespread.
  — Bryan Walsh, Time, 7 Aug. 2017
• 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
• His atheism makes hope so much harder and the wheel of history so much less forgiving.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 11 May 2018
• Lewes used Spinoza to confirm his atheism, while Marian used him to question her faith.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• Oddly enough, this is where Clark’s career in atheism started.
  — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And, certainly, your atheism makes the priest issue a nonissue.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
• 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
• But most do not see atheism as an identity to seek community around.
  — Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Stewart, the Westport atheist, was raised by devout Christians and now takes an approach to telling people about atheism much like a preacher.
  — Scott Canon, kansascity, 1 May 2017
• Mare’s atheism sticks out in a community where an older woman like Mrs. Carroll has crosses all over her home and her cousin Dan is the local priest.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2021
• In his tweets, Betts promoted atheism and gun ownership.
  — NBC News, 6 Aug. 2019
• While atheism and agnosticism are among the most common, there are some differences between those terms.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024
• Meanwhile, the Communist Party is again telling members that atheism remains a core value, not to be transgressed.
  — Nicole Winfield, The Seattle Times, 31 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• The government cannot promote atheism over religion, that’s true.
  — Jay Wexler, Vox, 14 June 2019
• 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
• This is not a Republican-versus-Democrat kind of thing; practical atheism is a plague.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 10 May 2021
• The charges once lobbed against Christians — atheism, superstition — were turned against pagan people.
  — Tom Bissell, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
• In addition to blasphemy, atheism is frowned upon by many in the majority Muslim north as well as in parts of the mostly Christian south.
  — Eoin McSweeney and Stephanie Busari, CNN, 29 Sep. 2020
• Bob Dylan and atheism—had been driving 100 miles an hour in opposite directions.
  — Jeff Slate, Esquire, 30 Oct. 2017
• In reality, many people think of agnosticism as a less stringent form of atheism.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 10 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024