Gaudium et spes
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 1     1,  19|  explicitly rejected it. Thus atheism must be accounted among
 2     1,  19|  closer examination.~The word atheism is applied to phenomena
 3     1,  19|     about religion. Moreover, atheism results not rarely from
 4     1,  19|        For, taken as a whole, atheism is not a spontaneous development
 5     1,  19|       to do with the birth of atheism. To the extent that they
 6     1,  20|                    20. Modern atheism often takes on a systematic
 7     1,  20|     on God. Those who profess atheism of this sort maintain that
 8     1,  20|     among the forms of modern atheism is that which anticipates
 9     1,  20| against religion, and promote atheism by using, especially in
10     1,  21|       are the questions which atheism raises, and motivated by
11     1,  21|      which must be applied to atheism, however, is to be sought
12     1,  21|     of unity.~While rejecting atheism, root and branch, the Church