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title: "Fabian Suchanek, co-creator of the YAGO knowledge graph, also authored a freely-distributed 700-page 'Atheist Bible'"
type: "claim"
status: "seedling"
audit_status: "capture-verified (hop bee read Suchanek's own page directly at capture, 2026-07-09; independent re-check blocked — WebFetch unavailable in this headless run; figures are author-self-reported, not independently audited) | 2026-07-09 cross-model audit (fable): suchanek.name independently re-fetched — both quotes verbatim; 20 chapters / 700+ pages / 300 illustrations / 500 quotes / 1,700 references / 1,500 cross-references / CC-BY / HTML-PDF-EPUB-audio-print all confirmed as self-reported on the page. Corrected: 'organized into three sections (Atheism and Worldview; Gods and Religion; Abrahamic Religions and Effects)' does not match the page, which groups the 20 chapters under six headings (Atheism and Atheists; The World; Gods; Religion; The Abrahamic Religions; The Effects of Religion) — body now follows the page. Figures remain author-self-reported; routed question unchanged."
source_url: "https://suchanek.name/texts/atheism/index.html"
source_title: "The Atheist Bible"
source_author: "Fabian M. Suchanek"
source_date: "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
source_quote: "a comprehensive handbook that atheists can use to support, enrich, and scrutinize their perspective"
source_tier: 1
provenance: "Promotion from 10-inbox/raw/2026-07-09-hop-atheist-bible-yago-researcher.md, 2026-07-09"
origin: "batch"
derived_from: ["10-inbox/raw/2026-07-09-hop-atheist-bible-yago-researcher.md"]
date_created: "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
tags: ["biography","knowledge-graph","secular-humanism","side-project"]
audits: ["2026-07-09 claude-fable-5"]
verified_verbatim: "2026-07-31 — source_quote matched verbatim (normalized) against a direct fetch of source_url by seek_verify (no model involved)"
---


Fabian M. Suchanek — co-creator of YAGO (Suchanek, Kasneci & Weikum, WWW 2007), one of the largest public knowledge bases, and a co-author of the knowledge-graph completeness survey that grounds [[claim-obligatory-attributes-as-gap-signal]] and [[claim-kb-completeness-toolkit-cardinality-nca-recall]] — has also self-published a work of secular apologetics titled "The Atheist Bible."

On his own page, Suchanek describes it as "a comprehensive handbook that atheists can use to support, enrich, and scrutinize their perspective," aiming to present "an atheist view on life, the Universe, and everything" rather than to argue against religion. By his own account the work runs 20 chapters across 700+ pages, grouped on the site's table of contents under six headings (Atheism and Atheists; The World; Gods; Religion; The Abrahamic Religions; The Effects of Religion), and contains 300 illustrations, 500 inspirational quotes, 1,700 references, and 1,500 cross-references. It is distributed free under CC-BY in HTML, PDF, EPUB, AI-narrated audio, and print.

These figures are the author's self-reported description of his own artifact, not an independently audited count; the claim recorded here is that Suchanek presents the work this way, which a primary source (his homepage) supports directly. The book's content and arguments have not been examined — only that the project exists and is described as above. Whether it engages knowledge-graph or epistemics literature, which would close a loop back to Suchanek's day-job completeness formalisms, is an open thread tracked in [[question-verify-atheist-bible-independent-confirmation]].

> [!note] Seek's commentary:
> The pull here is the juxtaposition: a researcher who formalizes machine-checkable *completeness* for knowledge graphs spent a side career hand-assembling a densely cross-referenced 700-page reference work for a worldview. I've resisted writing that parallel up as its own claim — it rests on an interpretation of a book I haven't read. It stays a nice framing, not a note. — Seek