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→Atheist art commonly employs mockery and/or ugliness
An atheist posted to atheist [[Sam Harris]]' discussion board: "This idea started when I googled “atheist art”. You see I was expecting to find art. Instead, what you get is a whole bunch of knockoffs of famous religious art that has been disfigured and mutilated. This made me slightly ashamed."<ref>[https://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread/58689/ Atheist post at Sam Harris' discussion board]</ref>
An atheist posted to atheist [[Sam Harris]]' discussion board: "This idea started when I googled “atheist art”. You see I was expecting to find art. Instead, what you get is a whole bunch of knockoffs of famous religious art that has been disfigured and mutilated. This made me slightly ashamed."<ref>[https://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread/58689/ Atheist post at Sam Harris' discussion board]</ref>
== Atheism and architecture ==
''See also:'' [[Atheism and architecture]]
[[Wikipedia]], a [[wiki]] founded by [[Atheism|atheist]] and [[agnosticism|agnostic]], has articles on "Early Christian art and architecture" and "Church architecture". However, it has no articles related to "atheist architecture".
The [[Soviet Union]] closed down many churches and converted some of them into Museums of Atheism rather than build magnificent buildings dedicated to promoting atheistic ideology.<ref>[http://www.presentpasts.info/articles/10.5334/pp.13/ Militant Atheist Objects: Anti-Religion Museums in the Soviet Union] by Crispin Paine</ref>
== Low amount of quality atheist art: Atheism is an uninspiring and negative concept ==
== Low amount of quality atheist art: Atheism is an uninspiring and negative concept ==