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atheist

noun as in nonbeliever in God

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

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He describes himself as an atheist and said it felt like "a bit of an imposition and probably a bit unfair and silly".

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“I knew that everything people told me about death wasn’t true. I became an atheist on the spot.”

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Vance’s answer went viral, in part because he claimed his wife, although from a Hindu family, was “agnostic or atheist,” and that he hoped she would convert to Christianity.

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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.

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