== Avatar Adi Da Samraj on atheism being dogmatic ==
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The essay ''The Parental Deity and The One To Be Realized'' by Avatar Adi Da Samraj declares:
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{{Cquote|Atheism is the ultimate form of denial of the Parental "God". Atheism is not founded on real observation of the ultimate facts of the universe. Rather, it is a kind of adolescent development of the human species.
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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>}}