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{{Cquote|Atheists with a [[sociopathy|sociopathic]] personality structure have a greater degree of predisposition to express different forms of occult practice. The results of canonical discriminant analysis have shown that occultist syndrome in atheists is a component of a kind of sociopathic aggression whose latent structure is defined by materialistic-hedonistic orientation, impulsive aggression and asocial aggression in the positive direction, and altruism in the negative direction. Atheists with a sociopathic personality structure have a greater degree of predisposition to express different forms of occult practice.  
 
{{Cquote|Atheists with a [[sociopathy|sociopathic]] personality structure have a greater degree of predisposition to express different forms of occult practice. The results of canonical discriminant analysis have shown that occultist syndrome in atheists is a component of a kind of sociopathic aggression whose latent structure is defined by materialistic-hedonistic orientation, impulsive aggression and asocial aggression in the positive direction, and altruism in the negative direction. Atheists with a sociopathic personality structure have a greater degree of predisposition to express different forms of occult practice.  
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(Google translated version of the journal article).<ref>[https://www.bib.irb.hr/410284?rad=410284 Atheism and the occult], Journal of Social Sciences, 32 (2008), 2; 357-366]</ref>}}
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(Google translated version of the journal article).<ref>[https://www.bib.irb.hr/410284?rad=410284 Atheism and the occult], Journal of Social Sciences, 32 (2008), 2; 357-366</ref>}}
    
A very prevalent view of the occult is that it is Satanic (see also: [[Atheism and satanic deception]]).
 
A very prevalent view of the occult is that it is Satanic (see also: [[Atheism and satanic deception]]).
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Geoffrey Fieger, the Michigan lawyer who defended [[Jack Kevorkian]], rejects Christianity because of the factual and logical inconsistency of the Bible's creation history with  
 
Geoffrey Fieger, the Michigan lawyer who defended [[Jack Kevorkian]], rejects Christianity because of the factual and logical inconsistency of the Bible's creation history with  
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his acceptance of old earth geological theory. [[Scriptural geologists]] opposed this in the 19th century. Fieger, the 1998 Democratic candidate for governor (MI) said: "If it [Christianity] is true, you can't explain the time in which life existed on this earth when there were no human beings. Or maybe God saw fit, prior to the time when humans were here, to send another being down, in the form of a dinosaur; an Incarnation for the dinosaurs."<ref> Roy Maynard, New(er) Democrat? World Magazine, August 29, 1998.[https://world.wng.org/1998/08/newer_democrat]</ref>
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his acceptance of old earth geological theory. [[Scriptural geologists]] opposed this in the 19th century. Fieger, the 1998 Democratic candidate for governor (MI) said: "If it [Christianity] is true, you can't explain the time in which life existed on this earth when there were no human beings. Or maybe God saw fit, prior to the time when humans were here, to send another being down, in the form of a dinosaur; an Incarnation for the dinosaurs."<ref>[https://world.wng.org/1998/08/newer_democrat Roy Maynard, New(er) Democrat? World Magazine, August 29, 1998]</ref>
    
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