=== Atheists, parents, personal autonomy, and the desire for eliteness ===
=== Atheists, parents, personal autonomy, and the desire for eliteness ===
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The NAS website declares: "Election to NAS membership in the NAS is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive."<ref>[http://www.nasonline.org/ NAS website]</ref> Biet-Hallahmi, author of ''Atheism, A Psychological Profile'', in ''The Cambridge Companion to Atheism'', wrote, “…what these individuals [the most elite] had, in addition to their creativity and high intelligence, was a strong wish to create distance between themselves and their parents.”
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The NAS website declares: "Election to NAS membership in the NAS is considered one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive."<ref>[http://www.nasonline.org/ NAS website]</ref>
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Biet-Hallahmi, author of ''Atheism, A Psychological Profile'', in ''The Cambridge Companion to Atheism'', wrote, “…what these individuals [the most elite] had, in addition to their creativity and high intelligence, was a strong wish to create distance between themselves and their parents.”
The ''Cambridge Companion to [[Atheism]]'' which was edited by the atheist [[philosophy|philosopher]] [[Michael Martin]] declared:
The ''Cambridge Companion to [[Atheism]]'' which was edited by the atheist [[philosophy|philosopher]] [[Michael Martin]] declared: