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Opposition to Christianity (view source)
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===Secularism===
===Secularism===
Stressing their interpretation of the [[Separation of church and state]], secularists have fought court battles to remove prayer from public schools, deny the nation's Christian heritage and outlaw the display of the [[Ten Commandments]] in courts of law, and even replace the term "Merry Christmas" with "Happy Holidays," to the chagrin of [[Bill O'Reilly]].
Stressing their interpretation of the [[Separation of church and state]], secularists have fought court battles to remove prayer from public schools, deny the nation's Christian heritage and outlaw the display of the [[Ten Commandments]] in courts of law, and even replace the term "Merry Christmas" with "Happy Holidays," to the chagrin of [[Bill O'Reilly]].
==Britain==
In 19th century Britain the proportion of prominent people who maintained an anti-Christian materialist atheism was negligible, and a significant number of those who did embrace it were unsatisfied and returned to their religious beliefs. There was a a significant pattern among Victorian popular radicals: the regaining of their Christian faith. Arguments from design, the a priori ontological argument, and the ability of Christianity to offer a secure foundation for morality persuaded Victorian secularists to convert.<ref> Timothy Larsen, "The Regaining of Faith: Reconversions among Popular Radicals in Mid-victorian England," ''Church History'' 2001 70(3): 527-543</ref>
==China==
==China==
== Examples ==
== Examples ==