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".<ref>[https://www.adidam.org/teaching/aletheon/dogma-atheism The Dogma of Atheism] by ''Dogma of Atheism: A reading from The Aletheon''</ref>}} | 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".<ref>[https://www.adidam.org/teaching/aletheon/dogma-atheism The Dogma of Atheism] by ''Dogma of Atheism: A reading from The Aletheon''</ref>}} |