Every standpoint, including atheist ones, distorts scholarly choice and method.

Evidence

It is obvious that the intention of the scientific-atheist propagandist is a special one which will affect his studies of Islam very much. Any approach to the subject from a special point of view, Marxist, ‘humanist’, Christian or Islamic, will affect, not only the opinions and the conclusions, but the actual choice of subjects to study and of methods of study. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1719

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the vault cluster by noting that the Soviet atheist ‘constitutive outside’ construction mirrors the Western Christian one from inside a supposedly secular frame.