Adherents | 7.4 million self-identified atheists; 1.1 billion are religiously "unaffiliated" |
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Beliefs | There is no God or divine beings. |
Practices | none |
Texts | Influential works include those by Marx, Freud, Feuerbach, Voltaire, and Mark Twain. Notable modern authors include Richard Dawkins and Carl Sagan. |
Atheism is the lack of belief in any gods. It is not a religion, but a worldview that looks to science and reason instead of religion to answer the "big questions."
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