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Line 142: − [[File:Cornelius Van Til.jpg|thumb|175px|right|Dr. [[Cornelius Van Til]] argued that atheists actively suppress their belief and knowledge of God.<ref>[http://www.cmfnow.com/articles/PA191.htm Van Til and Self-deception] by Dr. Greg Bahnsen</ref> In other words, atheists engage in self-deception about the [[Arguments for the existence of God|existence of God]].]]+ − + Line 149:
Line 149: − ''See also:'' [[Denials that atheists exist]] and [[Atheists doubting the validity of atheism]] and [[Atheism and apathy]]+ − − It has been asserted by various theists that atheists do not exist and that atheists are actively suppressing their belief and knowledge of God and enigmatically engage in self-deception and in the deception of others (see: [[Denials that atheists exist]] and [[Atheism and deception]]).
→Claims about the conditionality and existence of atheism
== Claims about the conditionality and existence of atheism ==
== Claims about the conditionality and existence of atheism ==
''See also:'' [[Atheists doubting the validity of atheism]]
''See also:'' [[Atheists doubting the validity of atheism]] and [[There Are No Atheists In Foxholes|There are no atheists in foxholes]]
Hannah More wrote: "[T]he mind, which knows not where to fly, flies to God. In agony, nature is no Atheist. The soul is drawn to God by a sort of natural impulse; not always, perhaps by an emotion of piety; but from a feeling conviction, that every other refuge is 'a refuge of lies'."<ref>More, Hannah (1815). [http://archive.org/details/anessayoncharac00moregoog ''An Essay on the Character and Practical Writings of St. Paul''], 5th ed., vol. 2 (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies), p. 234.</ref>
Hannah More wrote: "[T]he mind, which knows not where to fly, flies to God. In agony, nature is no Atheist. The soul is drawn to God by a sort of natural impulse; not always, perhaps by an emotion of piety; but from a feeling conviction, that every other refuge is 'a refuge of lies'."<ref>More, Hannah (1815). [http://archive.org/details/anessayoncharac00moregoog ''An Essay on the Character and Practical Writings of St. Paul''], 5th ed., vol. 2 (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies), p. 234.</ref>
=== Denials that atheists exist ===
=== Denials that atheists exist ===
* [[Denials that atheists exist]]
==Atheism and communism ==
==Atheism and communism ==