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==Tenuousness of Atheism in Prominent Atheist==
 
==Tenuousness of Atheism in Prominent Atheist==
 
[[Image:Sartre1.gif|thumb|150px|right|[[Jean-Paul Sartre]]]]
 
[[Image:Sartre1.gif|thumb|150px|right|[[Jean-Paul Sartre]]]]
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The atheism of notable people who claimed to be atheists has had the characteristic of tenuousness in regards to maintaining thoughts in accordance with atheism. For example, [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] was one of the leading atheists of the 20th Century.  Yet Jean-Paul Sartre made this candid confession:
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The atheism of notable people who claimed to be atheists has had the characteristic of tenuousness in regards to maintaining thoughts in accordance with atheism. For example, [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] was one of the leading propenents of atheism of the 20th Century.  Yet Jean-Paul Sartre made this candid confession:
 
{{cquote|As for me, I don’t see myself as so much dust that has appeared in the world but as a being that was expected, prefigured, called forth. In short, as a being that could, it seems, come only from a creator; and this idea of a creating hand that created me refers me back to God. Naturally this is not a clear, exact idea that I set in motion every time I think of myself. It contradicts many of my other ideas; but it is there, floating vaguely. And when I think of myself I often think rather in this way, for wont of being able to think otherwise.<ref>http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/apologetics/AP0702W4.htm</ref>}}
 
{{cquote|As for me, I don’t see myself as so much dust that has appeared in the world but as a being that was expected, prefigured, called forth. In short, as a being that could, it seems, come only from a creator; and this idea of a creating hand that created me refers me back to God. Naturally this is not a clear, exact idea that I set in motion every time I think of myself. It contradicts many of my other ideas; but it is there, floating vaguely. And when I think of myself I often think rather in this way, for wont of being able to think otherwise.<ref>http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/apologetics/AP0702W4.htm</ref>}}
 
[[Image:darwin.jpg|thumb|150px|left|[[Charles Darwin]]]]
 
[[Image:darwin.jpg|thumb|150px|left|[[Charles Darwin]]]]
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