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== Atheism in the Media ==
* Recently, atheism has gained some mainstream traction, though even before this happened, there were many people in the entertainment industry who were atheists. Noted examples include [[Gene Roddenberry]], [[J. Michael Straczynski]], [[Joss Whedon]], and [[Russell T.
* Prominent television characters who are atheists include Dr. Gregory House of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' and William Adama of the reimagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** In fact Atheism seems to be the norm in Star Trek. The Bajoran Prophets are real beings (so the religion isn't supernatural), and Klingon tradition is that their ancestors wiped out the gods that created them for being "more trouble than they were worth". Everyone else is either explicitly secular or mocked as primitive.
* Although they are sometimes implicitly ascribed this status, unlike the clergy of organized religions, well-known atheists like [[Richard Dawkins]] and [[Christopher Hitchens]] do not actually represent other atheists in any official capacity. This is something that non-atheists sometimes have trouble with, because they are used to the idea that (for example) a Baptist minister represents a Baptist ministry, but atheists don't have ministries because atheism is a lack of belief, not a belief system.
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