Atheism quiz

More questions about Atheism

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1. 1 Easy

   Where do most of the world's nonreligious people live?

   Answer: Asia

   Why: China alone is home to about 1.3 billion of them, roughly two in three of the world's religiously unaffiliated people.

2. 2 Medium

   Whose God did Albert Einstein say he believed in?

   Answer: Spinoza's God

   Why: Spinoza equated God with nature itself, which in his view acts for no goals or purposes.

3. 3 Hard

   Which atheist philosopher said in 2004 that a god exists?

   Answer: Antony Flew

   Why: Flew's new view was a limited deism, a creator who does not reveal himself in the world, and he still denied any life after death.

4. 4 Easy

   Which faith's early followers did Romans call atheists?

   Answer: Christianity

   Why: Worshipping one God and refusing all of Rome's gods looked to many Romans like denying the gods altogether.

5. 5 Medium

   Which poet was expelled from Oxford over a pamphlet on atheism?

   Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley

   Why: His friend Thomas Jefferson Hogg was expelled with him in 1811, after both refused to deny writing The Necessity of Atheism.

6. 6 Hard

   Whose 1841 book called God a projection of human nature?

   Answer: Ludwig Feuerbach

   Why: The book reached English readers in 1854 through Mary Ann Evans, who became famous as the novelist George Eliot.