What characterizes the doctrine (or dogma) of atheism is not a discovery that there is no "God", but a refusal to acknowledge every kind of parent (or parent-like authority), including (therefore) the Parental "God" of childish "religion"." — from "The Parental Deity and The One To Be Realized"<ref>[The Dogma of Atheism A reading from The Aletheon], by Avatar Adi Da Samraj<ref>[https://www.adidam.org/teaching/aletheon/dogma-atheism The Dogma of Atheism | What characterizes the doctrine (or dogma) of atheism is not a discovery that there is no "God", but a refusal to acknowledge every kind of parent (or parent-like authority), including (therefore) the Parental "God" of childish "religion"." — from "The Parental Deity and The One To Be Realized"<ref>[The Dogma of Atheism A reading from The Aletheon], by Avatar Adi Da Samraj<ref>[https://www.adidam.org/teaching/aletheon/dogma-atheism The Dogma of Atheism |