Darunia Wrote:So... only communists are atheists...?I noticed a lot of Communists in that list (though to be fair, I assume you were just copying and pasting without any alteration).
A
Forrest J. Ackerman
Douglas Adams
Phillip Adams
Brandy Alexandre
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Tariq Ali
Woody Allen
Shulamit Aloni
Thomas J. Altizer
Natalie Angier
Lance Armstrong
Liv Arnesen
Madison Arnold
Isaac Asimov
Peter William Atkins
B
Kevin Bacon
Russell Baker
J.G. Ballard
Iain M. Banks
Clive Barker
Dan Barker
MC Paul Barman
Dave Barry
Richard Bartle
Bill Bass
Matt Bellamy
Steve Benson
Ingmar Bergman
Pierre Berton
Matt Besser
Paul Bettany
Björk
Susan Blackmore
Bill Blass
Jim Bohanan
Sir Herman Bondi
Pierre Boulez
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Nathaniel Branden
Marlon Brando
Richard Branson
Berkeley Breathed
Julia Hartley Brewer
Marcus Brigstocke
Isaac Brock
Rodney Brooks
Andrew Brown
Derren Brown
Peter Buck
Gabriel Byrne
John Byrne
C
Dean Cameron
James Cameron
Mike Carey
George Carlin
John Carmack
Adam Carolla
John Carpenter
Asia Carrera
Fidel Castro
Stephen Chapman
Dov Charney
Vic Chesnutt
Noam Chomsky
Mohammed Choukri
Robin Christopher
C cont.
Chumbawamba
Jeremy Clarkson
Alexander Cockburn
Billy Connolly
John Conway
Alex Cox
Wayne Coyne
Francis Crick
David Cronenberg
David Cross
Alan Cumming
Justin Currie
D
Ron Dakron
Rodney Dangerfield
Julia Darling
Russell T Davies
Mark Jonathan Davis
William B. Davis
Richard Dawkins
Jeff Dee
Samuel R. Delany
Daniel Dennett
David Deutsch
Catherine Deveny
Ani DiFranco
Micky Dolenz
Amanda Donohoe
Phil Donahue
Natalie Dormer
Roddy Doyle
Marcus du Sautoy
E
Christopher Eccleston
Dean Edell
Jonathan Edwards
Paul Edwards
Greg Egan
Barbara Ehrenreich
Paul Ehrlich
Bret Easton Ellis
Harlan Ellison
Warren Ellis
William Empson
Garth Ennis
Brian Eno
Euhemerus
Hugh Everett
F
Oriana Fallaci
Diane Farr
David Feherty
Jules Feiffer
Larry Fessenden
Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach
Richard Feynman
Harvey Fierstein
Bob Fingerman
Reginald Finley
Brian Flemming
Larry Flynt
Dario Fo
Dave Foley
Peter Fonda
James Forman
Jodie Foster
John Fowles
Robin Lane Fox
Stephen Fry
G
Noel Gallagher
G cont.
Janeane Garofalo
Bob Geldof
Jack Germond
Ricky Gervais
Prabhir Ghosh
David Gilmour
Ira Glass
James Gleick
Jean Luc Godard
Theo van Gogh
Al Goldstein
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nadine Gordimer
Michael Goudeau
Richard E. Grant
A. C. Grayling
Stephen Greenblatt
Susan Greenfield
Germaine Greer
Kathy Griffin
Rachel Griffiths
H
Joe Haldeman
Kathleen Hanna
Yip Harburg
Harry Harrison
Sam Harris
Nina Hartley
Bree Olson
Roy Hattersley
James A. Haught
Bill Hayden
Judith Hayes
Stan Hayes
Robert Heinlein
Nat Hentoff
Katharine Hepburn
Richard Herring
Paul Hester
Christopher Hitchens
Douglas Hofstadter
Jerry Holkins
Ted Honderich
General Choi Hong-Hi
Sidney Hook
Derek Humphry
I
Eddie Izzard
J
Penn Jillette
Billy Joel
Angelina Jolie
Kirk Jones
K
Wendy Kaminer
Alex Kapranos
Jonathan Katz
Dawna Kaufmann
Kawaljeet Kaur
Diane Keaton
Ken Keeler
Ludovic Kennedy
Kevin Kline
Skandar Keynes
Eli Khamarov
Kim Il-Sung
Florence King
Neil Kinnock
W. P. Kinsella
Michael Kinsley
Melvin Konner
K
Frank Kozik
Kramer
Paul Krassner
Ron Kuby
Milan Kundera
Paul Kurtz
L
Artie Lange
Ring Lardner Jr.
Hugh Laurie
Mr. Lavanam
Cloris Leachman
Richard Leakey
Alexander I. Lebed
Bruce Lee
Geddy Lee
Stewart Lee
Tom Lehrer
Mike Leigh
Stanislaw Lem
Vladimir Lenin
Gerda Lerner
Michael Lewis
Tom Leykis
James Lipton
Denis Loubet
H.P. Lovecraft
Arjen Lucassen
M
Heather Mac Donald
Norm Macdonald
Seth MacFarlane
Bill Maher
John Malkovich
Mike Malloy
'Manda
Barry Manilow
Shirley Manson
Mao Zedong
Michael Martin
Karl Marx
Nick Mason
Armistead Maupin
John McCarthy
Malachy McCourt
Evelyn McDonnell
Ian McEwan
Todd McFarlane
Montana McGlynn
Sir Ian McKellen
Alexander McQueen
Butterfly McQueen
Jonathan Meades
Antonio Mendoza
Stephen Merchant
Tom Metzger
Arthur Miller
Frank Miller
Jonathan Miller
Mike Mills
Tim Minchin
Marvin Minsky
Warren Mitchell
John Money
Hans Moravec
Desmond Morris
James Morrow
John Mortimer
M cont.
Markos 'Kos' Moulitsas Z
Frank Mullen
Cillian murphy
N
Taslima Nasrin
Ramendra Nath
Jawaharlal Nehru
Ted Nelson
Randy Newman
Mike Nichols
Jack Nicholson
Kai Nielsen
Oscar Niemeyer
Friedrich Nietzsche
Robert Nozick
Gary Numan
Ronald Numbers
O
Barack Obama Sr.
Bob Odenkirk
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Patton Oswalt
P
Camille Paglia
Andy Partridge
Mark Pauline
Leonard Peikoff
Paul Pfalzner
Julia Phillips
Joaquin Phoenix
Ferdinand Piech
Steven Pinker
Brad Pitt
Neal Pollack
Sarah Polley
Katha Pollitt
Paula Poundstone
Vladimir Pozner
Terry Pratchett
Paul Provenza
Q
Robin Quivers
R
Daniel Radcliffe
Justin Raimondo
Ayn Rand
James Randi
Ray Romano
Ron Reagan Jr.
Carl Reiner
Rick Reynolds
Griff Rhys-Jones
Mordecai Richler
Christopher Ricks
Matt Ridley
Brian Ritchie
Brad Roberts
Chris Robinson
Gene Roddenberry
Richard Rodgers
Joe Rogan
Neil Rogers
Henry Rollins
Andy Rooney
Richard Rorty
Arundhati Roy
Jane Rule
Salman Rushdie
Douglas Rushkoff
Karen Russell
S
Oliver Sacks
Mona Sahlin
S cont.
Sandbox
Robert Sapolsky
Pamela Sargent
Max Sawicky
John Sayles
Tom Schulman
Eugenie Scott
Captain Sensible
Nick Seymour
Robert I. Sherman
Michael Shermer
Robert Silverberg
Sarah Silverman
Claude Simon
Simplot, J.R.
Joe Simpson
Slayer
J.J.C. Smart
Robert Smith (football)
George H. Smith
Robert Smith
Lee Smolin
Steven Soderbergh
Todd Solondz
Annika Sorenstam
George Soros
Joseph Stalin
Richard Stallman
Victor Stenger
Bruce Sterling
Howard Stern
J. Michael Straczynski
Ken Stringfellow
Julia Sweeney
Matthew Sweet
T
James Taranto
Teller
Studs Terkel
Louis Theroux
Pat Tillman
Tom Tomorrow
Tool
Linus Torvalds
Solomon Tulbure
Ted Turner
Bill Tytla
V
Eddie Vedder
Paul Verhoeven
Gore Vidal
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Sarah Vowell
W
Matt Wagner
Jimmy Wales
Annika Walter
Harry Waters
Roger Waters
James Watson
Peter Watts
Steven Weinberg
Gene Weingarten
Joss Whedon
Gene Wilder
Harland Williams
Sean Williams
Ted Williams
Ian Wilmut
Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine
W
Tom Wolfe
Lewis Wolpert
W cont.
Steve Wozniak
Bruce Wright
Y
Irvin D. Yalom
Z
Frank Zappa
Zarkov
Nick Zedd
Disclaimer: This list was supplied to me from a Google search though I assume it to be mostly accurate.
Furthermore:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/26/lib...tml?hpt=C2
http://proudatheists.wordpress.com/2009/...can-video/
Now then... all jokes aside... if you really want to start sparring over religion, I will gladly comply... I just don't want to destroy the quaint culture we all enjoy it... because once the gloves come off about religion... people get hurt.
Jack Nicholson is an atheist? Then how could he dance with the devil in the pale moon light? :FuckYou:
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But in all seriousness, I wasn't trying to start a religious debate. At the same time, I knew the thread might spiral in that direction. I'm actually finding the current debate interesting, though, so carry on if you would like. :)
In 2003, I hated having my beliefs challenged. After having completed college, though, I like being forced to think. As such, I welcome religious debate openly.
The way I see it, agnosticism accepts that we don't know. Science does not fill in answers to the mysteries of the universe with copout answers such as "God did it," but it is equally a copout to conclude that there is no God because we cannot prove this. (The only way God can prove that He does exist is by showing Himself to humanity, and if He doesn't exist, then we just have to accept that there is pretty much no way to prove it.)
Granted, the possibility of God's existence should not be a serious consideration during the pursuit of knowledge. The problem with fundamentalists is that they're not satisfied with admitting that we simply don't know some things; they feel the need to come up with an answer, whether it's the right one or not, and so they simply say, "God did it." This problem is worsened whenever science proves a religious theory wrong as the fundamentalists will do anything in their power to shut the scientists up. The Earth is round. The Earth moves around the sun. We are not at the center of the universe, if there even is such a thing. And even today, evolution is still getting a lot of flack despite strong evidence supporting it. (I facepalm at every anti-evolution bumper sticker I see.)
If religion makes people feel better about losing a loved one or gives them the willpower to fight diseases or overcome life's hardships, then it's fine to believe. However, I have no tolerance for religious-based ignorance, especially when it leads to discrimination or impedes scientific (especially medical) progress (i.e. stem cell research).