This article is the second in a "trilogy" dealing with the Church's "Victorian prejudices" regarding atheism, which are noticeable among the more conservative advocates of the Church in post-communist states. The article discusses the relationship between (a)theism and conception as to the meaning of life. The respective prejudice of the Church is that the life of an atheisthas no meaning, and lacks orientation. The ISSP survey - which allows identification of supernatural (God-centred) and naturalistic conceptions as to life's meaning - reveals that the production of meaning is a very obvious activity amongst the atheist population. Atheists in all the analysed states emphasize the importance of man's own active role in instituting the meaning of life. The article thus provides an explanation of the established relations; it also represents an attempt to bring to the fore both atheism and atheists as the subject of sociological research in post-communist states.
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