Who is your classical atheist author? Voltaire, D'Holbach, Hume?
Kurt Vonnegut, almost still alive
Harlan Ellison, still alive
Epicurus? He wasn’t striclty athiest, but belived the gods had no influence on mortal affairs and therefore were of no concern to mortals.
That's a great choice!
If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.
Mikhail Bakunin
The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.
Mikhail Bakunin
Immanuel Kant
He was not an Atheist. He was a Lutheran.
@cava Then forget it. The info I accessed says he was atheist and contributed to athiest theory during the Enlightenment.
@hemingwaykitten he argued against any rational proof of God, he said it was a mater of Faith...a famous expresion of this is that he made room for Faith
Kant was a devout Christian, the Leap of Faith is the core of his argument for God.
He even turned down the love of his life to pursue his philosophy,
Voltaire. Candide is on regular rotation. No knock on the others.