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The country that houses the world’s second-largest Hindu temple is the U.S.—also home to the Christian street preacher, the Mormon missionary and the combative atheist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

Akhand said he would handle the legal side, but it was up to the undercover reporter to choose whether he wanted to pretend to be gay, an atheist or a political activist.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

Lou assumes her husband is an atheist and doesn’t understand when she discovers a Bible in the house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025

China's officially atheist government has been wary of organized movements outside its control, and the country's Christians had been split among those attending unofficial "house" or "underground" churches and those visiting government-sanctioned places of worship.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2025

To be an atheist is to maintain God.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Agnostics and atheists account for 29 percent, and 15 percent did not respond to the pollster Equipos Consultores.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

“I know people of faith will watch the show, but I also know that atheists watch the show and like it. To me, that’s the broadest possible audience.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

You can see the evidence yourself: On social media, people are making teary videos professing to have rediscovered Jesus; in the comments, former atheists share stories of finding peace and purpose in prayer.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2025

Among modern-day atheists, agnostics and deists alike, stories often emerge of late-arriving regrets, both over a dying person's treatment of others and their treatment of themselves.

From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2025

We use the word ‘Epicurean’ to mean someone who seeks physical pleasure but, in the Renaissance, Epicureans were materialists and atheists and consequently unable to acknowledge any good other than physical pleasure.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton