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→The stealth agnosticism/atheism of Charles Darwin
For additional information, see: [[Atheism and deception]]
For additional information, see: [[Atheism and deception]]
== Atheist activists using closet atheists issue to claim atheism is widespread ==
It is common for atheist activists to exaggerate the number of people who are atheist.
The atheist Georgetown professor [[Jacques Berlinerblau]] declared about American movement atheists: They wildly overestimate] their numbers. They tend to overestimate the efficacy of their activism." <ref>[http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2012-09/professor-jacques-berlinerblau-tells-atheists-stop-whining Professor Jacques Berlinerblau tells atheists: Stop whining!], Christian Century, Sep 14, 2012 by Kimberly Winston</ref>}}
One tactic that is used by atheist/agnostic activists to artificially inflate their numbers is to claim that a great number of people are closet atheists/agnostics.
The ''Times of India'' reported about Richard Dawkins:
{{Cquote|When will we see the first atheist President of the US? "I suspect we have already seen several atheist US presidents, they just didn't admit it," responded Dawkins. "I suspect Lincoln was an atheist, probably so was Kennedy. Obama is an intelligent man, so I wouldn't be surprised if he's a closet atheist". Does that make them all hypocrites? "You can't be an American politician without being a hypocrite," signed off the renowned biologist and ardent Darwinian.<ref>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Look-forward-to-the-death-of-organized-religion-Richard-Dawkins/articleshow/11609561.cms Look forward to the death of organized religion: Richard Dawkins], Iimes of India</ref>}}
''Christianity Today'' says of Abraham Lincoln's religious beliefs:
{{Cquote|Confusion about Lincoln’s religion arises from the multiple ambiguities of his life. On the one hand, Lincoln was, in the words of biographers James Randall and Richard Current, “a man of more intense religiosity than any other President the United States has ever had.” On the other hand, Lincoln’s faith was not conventional...
The greatest difficulty in coming to a clearer picture of Lincoln’s faith is the fact that his religion does not fit into modern categories. He was not an orthodox, evangelical, “born-again” Christian striving toward the “higher life” (as these terms have been used since the 1870s). But neither was he a skeptical “modernist” with a prejudice against the supernatural and an aversion to the Bible.<ref>[http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-33/puzzling-faith-of-abraham-lincoln.html The Puzzling Faith of Abraham Lincoln], Christianity Today</ref>}}
== Bernie Sanders' reluctance to call himself an atheist ==
== Bernie Sanders' reluctance to call himself an atheist ==