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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McGrath's personal journey from Marxist atheist to Christian theologian also offers lessons about intellectual humility and openness to change.
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Karl Moore, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
To match Silicon Valley’s escalating rhetoric, AI skeptics have ramped up their own, like atheists heckling from the pews at Mass.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 8 July 2025
Her friends are creatives, and in a country where a cleric is the supreme authority, many of them atheists.
—Jane Arraf, NPR, 29 June 2025
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Karl Moore, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
To match Silicon Valley’s escalating rhetoric, AI skeptics have ramped up their own, like atheists heckling from the pews at Mass.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 8 July 2025
Her friends are creatives, and in a country where a cleric is the supreme authority, many of them atheists.
—Jane Arraf, NPR, 29 June 2025
There are Sunni and Shiite Muslims, atheists and Baha'is, Afghan and Iraqi refugees.
—Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
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infidel
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During the Crusades, the Inquisition, and countless pogroms, Jews were demonized as infidels who refused to abandon their faith, even under threat of death.—
Avi Weiss,
New York Daily News,
10 Aug. 2025
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Some Muslim men believe that the reward for killing infidels is 72 virgins in the afterlife.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Atheist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atheist. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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