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The [[agnosticism|agnostic]] Richard Dawkins has publicly flip-flops between the positions of agnosticism, atheism and [[militant atheism]] (see: [[Richard Dawkins and agnosticism]]).

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== Leonid Brezhnev ==

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In his nuclear arms negotiations with President [[Jimmy Carter]], the atheist [[Leonid Brezhnev]] said, "God will never forgive us if we don't succeed."[http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-18/carter2.html]

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Gary Thomas wrote in [[Christianity Today]]

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As Vice President, George Bush represented the U.S. at the funeral of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Bush was deeply moved by a silent protest carried out by Brezhnev's widow. She stood motionless by the coffin until seconds before it was closed. Then, just as the soldiers touched the lid, Brezhnev's wife performed an act of great courage and hope, a gesture that must surely rank as one of the most profound acts of civil disobedience ever committed: She reached down and made the sign of the cross on her husband's chest. There in the citadel of secular, atheistic power, the wife of the man who had run it all hoped that her husband was wrong. She hoped that there was another life, and that that life was best represented by Jesus who died on the cross, and that the same Jesus might yet have mercy on her husband.<ref>[http://www.sermonillustrations.com/a-z/a/atheism.htm ATHEISM, quoted from Gary Thomas, Christianity Today, October 3, 1994, p. 26 ], website of SermonIllustrations.com<ref>}}

== Atheism has a lower retention rate compared to other worldviews ==

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