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| | + | == Atheism and history == |
| | + | [[File: Voroshilov, Molotov, Stalin, with Nikolai Yezhov.jpg|right|225px]] |
| | + | [[File: The Commissar Vanishes 2.jpg|thumbnail|right|220px|Nikolai Yezhov walking with [[Joseph Stalin]] in the top photo taken in the mid 1930s. Subsequent to his execution in 1940, Yezhov was edited out of the photo by Soviet Union censors.<ref>[http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/vanishes.htm The Commissar Vanishes</ref>]] |
| | + | ''See also:'' [[Atheists and historical illiteracy]] and [[History of Atheism|History of atheism]] and [[Atheist indoctrination]] and [[Atheism and historical revisionism]] |
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| | + | The history of atheism: [[History of Atheism|History of atheism]] |
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| | + | === Atheists and historical illiteracy === |
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| | + | A common complaint concerning many atheists is their lack of depth when it comes to knowledge of [[history]] and [[historiography]] - particularly in areas such as [[historicity of Jesus|historicity of Jesus Christ]] and [[Atheism and Mass Murder|atheist mass murders in history]].<ref>Multiple references: |
| | + | *Day, Vox (March 10, 2014). [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-ignorance-of-cosmos.html "The ignorance of ''Cosmos''"]. Vox Populi blog. See [[Vox Day]]. |
| | + | *Koukl, Gregory (February 20, 2013). [http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5527 "The real murderers: atheism or Christianity?"] Stand to Reason.</ref> |
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| | + | For more information, please see: |
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| | + | *[[Atheists and historical illiteracy]] |
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| | + | *[[Historicity of Jesus|Historicity of Jesus Christ]] |
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| | + | *[[Age of the earth]] |
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| | + | *[[World history]] |
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| | + | === Atheists and historical revisionism === |
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| | + | Atheists commonly engage in [[historical revisionism]] in order to illegitimately distort the historical record (see: [[Atheism and historical revisionism]]). |
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| | == Atheism and economics == | | == Atheism and economics == |