You might say ours is a list of atheists with attitude.Īs the final requirement, we give pride of place to seriousness. The person must look upon atheism not just as an intellectual position or worldview, but also as a cause or movement. He or she must exhibit some desire to win others over to atheism.
To make our ranking, the atheist must be an activist.
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In a few cases, a person has made the list mainly on the basis of his or her attack on free will and morality-the foundation of the traditional religious view of human beings-so long as the person has also publicly identified as an atheist.Įnergy is another requirement. In other words, our ranking is a list of people who are well known because they are atheists, among other things-as opposed to people who are mainly famous for some other reason (like Jodie Foster or Bruce Willis). To make our list, the atheist must have a public identification with atheism and must have made some public impact by challenging religion and/or promoting atheism, either in print or on the Internet. To make the cut, one has to do more than merely question God’s existence or even deny that knowledge of God’s existence is possible.Ĭelebrity is another requirement. To make our list, someone has to be very sure of him- or herself. Yet for an atheist to make our ranking of the 50 top atheists in the world-given in ascending order-it is not enough merely to deny that God exists.
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