Talal Asad, in an anthropological study on modernity, quotes an Arab atheist named Adonis who has said, "The sacred for atheism is the human being himself, the human being of reason, and there is nothing greater than this human being. It replaces revelation by reason and God with humanity."
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An article in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 2004 suggested that atheists might have a higher suicide rate than theists.
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