Who Are The Famous Atheists
I wanted to share with you about the famous atheists out there that never get recognized for what they believe in. They probably don’t feel like expressing it because there maybe a backlash.
Penn Jillette: Penn is an entertainer and magician that is most famous for his place in “Penn & Teller”. He is an outspoken libertarian and an even more outspoken atheist. He also has a Showtime television show that constantly debunks religious ideals for rational thought. This would include debunking creationism to occultish medicine.
Friedrich Nietzsche: Nietzsche was a philosopher and great writer. Many of his writings like Thus Spake Zarathustra associate the ideal that God is dead or doesn’t exist.
Richard Dawkins: Dawkins is probably the most outspoken atheist that takes full assault on religion. He believes that for the longest time religion has been sheltered from criticism and that we need to stop sheltering it. He says that religion is dangerous and that religion is precisely why 9/11 happened.
Ayn Rand: Rand is an atheist like I discussed earlier in this post. She believes that minds we all have are our highest power. We should never look above ourselves for answers when we have a mind to answer it for us.
John Stossel: Stossel is one of the reporters of 20/20 and has brought a lot of great specials to light. One of his greatest reports related to religion was The Power of Belief. The report ended with the following quote from Stossel, “Yes, it will. And the real world’s all we’ve got. Believers in the supernatural claim to have special wisdom about the world. But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking. Yes, the real world is mysterious and sometimes frightening. But would the supernatural make it better?”
These are some famous atheists that have come out and let everyone know what they think about religion. I think it is courageous of them to speak their mind even though there is still a stigma with atheism.
