List of Atheists/Agnostics in Politics and Law

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List of people who identify as Atheist/Agnostic in Politics and Law

Africa

Cambodia

China

India

Middle East

North Korea

  • Kim Il-sung - First Leader of North Korea
  • Kim Jong-il - Second Leader of North Korea, and Son of Kim Il-sung
  • Kim Jong-un - Third Leader of North Korea and Son of Kim Jong-il

Vietnam

  • Ho Chi Minh - Communist Leader of North Vietnam/Vietnam

New Zealand

Albania

France

Germany

Italy

Netherlands

  • Geert Wilders - Lead of the Populist movement in the Netherlands (Agnostic)

Poland

Romania

Soviet Union/Russia

Turkey

United Kingdom

Others in Europe

Canada

Cuba

Mexico

United States

South America

References

  1. ↑ "Democratic Kampuchea was officially an atheist state, and the persecution of religion by the Khmer Rouge was matched in severity only by the persecution of religion in the communist states of Albania and North Korea, so there were not any direct historical continuities of Buddhism into the Democratic Kampuchea era." Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases, p. 282
  2. ↑ "Rabin was an atheist. He had nothing to do with the religious calendar. Not to mention the fact that the "Jewish" calendar is really a Babylonian one, and that its months carry the names of Babylonian gods." Uri Avnery, The Real Rabin, Ma'ariv.
  3. ↑ President Nelson Meets with New Zealand Prime Minister (en) (20 May 2019).
  4. ↑ Elkaïm, Olivia. "François Hollande : des origines protestantes hollandaises", La Vie, 5 April 2012. (fr)  (In December 2011, Hollande told the French Christian magazine La Vie that he respects all religious practices but has none of his own: "En décembre dernier, François Hollande confiait à La Vie : 'Je n'ai aucune pratique religieuse. Mais je respecte toutes les confessions. La mienne est de ne pas en avoir.'")
  5. ↑ "France's new president is a 'zombie Catholic'". Catholic News Agency.
  6. ↑ "Bormann, an atheist, waged a particularly fanatical fight against the Christian Church." Karl Wilhelm Krause, Herbert Döhring, Anna Plaim, Kurt Kuch, Living with Hitler: Accounts of Hitler's Household Staff, p. 273
  7. ↑ In a 1946 interview, Göring said, "I don't believe that I will go to either heaven or hell when I die. I don't believe in the Bible or in a lot of things which religious people think." Leon Goldensohn, The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses, p. 132
  8. ↑ "Within the NSDAP (as in the German völkisch movement in general) there existed from the outset a group of old Hitler partisans who in contrast to the 'atheists' Alfred Rosenberg, Martin Bormann and others, believed in a union of National Socialism and Protestant Christianity." Martin Broszat, The Hitler State, p. 223
  9. ↑ In a 1946 interview, Streicher said, "Christ was a Jew and God, he is supposed to have made the universe. That's a little far-fetched because if God made the world, who made God?" Leon Goldensohn, The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses, p. 256
  10. ↑ "Lenin had abandoned religion entirely around the age of sixteen and, as a devotee of Russian revolutionary thought, was an atheist." Robert Service, Lenin: A Biography, p. 85
  11. ↑ "Lenin's world was anti-metaphysical, anti-individualistic, atheist and materialist. The idealists whom Lenin despised for their 'superstitions' believed by contrast in transcendental values, moral individualism, faith, idealism and, resting on all these things and indissoluble from them, freedom." Lesley Chamberlain, Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia, pp. 271-272
  12. ↑ Tariq Ramadan, Islam and the Arab Awakening, Oxford University Press, 2012, ISBN 0199933731, p. 76.
  13. ↑ "Belarus president visits Vatican", BBC News, April 27, 2009. 
  14. ↑ Pancho Villa: Intimate Recollections by People Who Knew Him, p. 34
  15. ↑ Jamie Bisher, The Intelligence War in Latin America, 1914-1922, p. 185
  16. ↑ "Somehow, [Calles'] illegitimacy and poverty shaped his hatred for religion and Catholicism. He became an avowed atheist." José M. Peña, Inherit the Dust from the Four Winds of Revilla: A 250-Year Historical Perspective with Emphasis on Ancient Guerrero, its People and its Land Grants, p. 230
  17. ↑ David A. Shirk, Mexico's New Policies: The PAN and Democratic Change, p. 58
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