atheist

Example Sentences

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The Chinese government remains officially atheist and keeps tight control over organized religion.

From Barron's • Nov. 1, 2025

Officially, the Communist Party is atheist, with the only legal churches in China being those sanctioned by the state.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

I'm an atheist who wasn't raised with much religion at all, so I've never observed Lent.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2025

My parents — one religiously devout and the other an atheist — taught me better than that.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2025

Corporal Whitcomb, an atheist, was a disgruntled subordinate who felt he could do the chaplain’s job much better than the chaplain was doing it and viewed himself, therefore, as an underprivileged victim of social inequity.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller