I kind of call myself an atheist I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist I hope.

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist a woman in the audience stood up and said 'Yes but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

He was an embittered atheist the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

To you I'm an atheist to God I'm the Loyal Opposition.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

If only I wasn't an atheist I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

For our part we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions a life free from fear a life free from want - a life in peace.

Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist especially now that his friend and rival for the title Christopher Hitchens has now gone to meet his Maker.