Re: Atheist heroes from fiction
Atheist heroes, you say?
Perhaps my favorite atheist character is the main character of Graham Greene's book "A Burnt-Out Case", and I highly recommend this book, as well. It is one of my favorites.
Another famous atheist is the doctor from Albert Camus' "The Plague", which is basically a full frontal assault on the idea that one can't be moral without religion.
Then, of course, there is Ivan Karamazov from Dostoevesky's "The Brothers Karamazov". He isn't really the hero of the book, but he makes many interesting points, and his story about the Grand Inquisitor is one of the most famous atheistic arguments from literature ever.
I also like Yossarian from Catch-22, and though he isn't obviously an atheist, some of the remarks in the book imply it--he asks, for instance, where a benevolent God finds a place in his universe for tooth decay.
Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" also features an atheistic architect. It's a long book, and it is a bit philosophically muddled, but it still tells a pretty engaging story.
In movies, the main character of Seventh Seal is a great example of an atheistic hero.
I could come up with a lot more, but I'll refrain for the moment for others to have something to chime in with.
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