Can you Name a FAMOUS A*T*H*E*I*S*T ?

I was a Trekkie before Trekkies were cool!
Did you see the Star Trek episode about the Roman Empire? They were having troubles with "sun worshippers"...
At the end, Uhura realizes that they aren't "sun worshippers"...but Son worshippers. This is not the only episode that indicates that Rodenberry may have believed in God.

But I can name a famous A*T*H*E*I*S*T:
Joseph Stalin

EDIT:
It is a mistake to assume that, because a man is a scientist, he must therefore also be an atheist. If you happen to have a copy of Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time", as I do, you ought to read Chapter 11, "Conclusion". If you have read it, you know that Hawking obviously believes in God. His reverence for God is unmistakable in his writing. His very last sentence: "If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason--for then we should know the mind of God."
It is also a mistake to get all of your information about great men of history from biased sources. These great men are, unfortunately, dead...and can no longer speak for themselves. Thus, there are all sorts of people with "agendas" willing to put words in their mouths that they would be apalled to know they had spoken. Sometimes all it takes is one or two "quotes" taken out of context.
Believe or not, it's your choice...but don't base your belief or lack of same on popular trends, or what you think other folks may or may not believe.
Here's another great quote:
"For God's sake, child, you have a mind of your own, don't you?
Use it!!"
~~my Dad...
or this one:
"Mypublicident is an idiot."
~~Angeltress

2007-07-15 04:20:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋

Carl Sagan
Stephen Hawking
Carolyn S. Shoemaker &
Eugene Merle Shoemaker
Ernest Hemingway
Benjamin Franklin (honorable mention, but almost an Atheist)
James Madison
John Adams
Billy Joel
Freidrich Nietzsche
Gene Roddenberry
George Bernard Shaw
Gloria Steinam
Helen Keller
Sir Alfred Hitchcock
Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain"
Susan B. Anthony
William Howard Taft
Thomas Edison
Gillian Anderson
Jodie Foster
Ron Reagan Jr.

2007-07-15 11:20:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋

Mark Twain.
Bertrand Russel (a noted maker of teapots)

Reallytrue, provide a link and a validation for that claim. Anybody can publish anything online, and anybody can claim that something was published online. Or are you claiming that Einstein was a bald faced liar up until the day he died.

Some late comer is writing a book that, from what I have seen of the excerpts only Confirms Einstein as a Deist following Spinoza's concept of a universal spirit.Nothing at all in there about Einstein being a Christian. And whether Einstein liked it or not a Deist is a type of atheist.

2007-07-15 11:20:15 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋

Dr. Benjamin Spock, child care expert and author
Mark Twain
Julia Sweeney from Saturday Night Live
Michael Shermer
Winston Churchill
Lewis Black
Clarence Darrow
Dave Matthews

2007-07-15 11:25:57 · answer #4 · answered by Graciela, RIRS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Bertrand Russell, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Bruce Willis.

2007-07-15 11:17:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋

By the way Stephen Hawkings believes in the same god as Albert Einstein which is not your abrahamic god so stop claiming them as your own
also we don't want Stalin he created a cult of himself
Russians love a trust Stalin to this day
and would re-elect him were he alive

2007-07-16 08:18:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

Angelina Jolie

2007-07-15 11:17:43 · answer #7 · answered by gruz 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋

George Carlin

2007-07-15 11:19:55 · answer #8 · answered by cynical 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋

Easy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous_atheists

2007-07-15 11:18:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋

Billy Joel
Shirley Manson - lead singer of the band Garbage
Michael Stipes - lead singer of REM
Frank Zappa

2007-07-15 11:19:56 · answer #10 · answered by genaddt 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋

Can you Name a FAMOUS ATHEIST ?

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