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Just Desserts. The pair of lawyers could have-perhaps should have-done their routine at the Palace. During one involved inquisition, Bryan quoted a Buddhist monk to the effect that Buddhism is an "agnostic" religion. Agnostic Darrow wanted to know what the monk looked like. "How tall was he?" Replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Monkey Fizz | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

A generation ago, a church goer who admitted to doubts about the Virgin Birth, say, would be clearly stamped among his fellows as a disciple of some such flaming modernist as Harry Elmer Barnes at best, or of Agnostic Robert Ingersoll at worst. In the fidelistic mood of the postwar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heretic or Prophet? | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

Spiritually speaking, Pike "went over the wall. I was a free guy. It was glorious. I was vaguely a humanist, caring about good causes and truth, but the religious question didn't concern me. I wasn't antichurch; I just dropped out." He went on from U.S.C. to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heretic or Prophet? | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

Are graduates of parochial schools better Roman Catholics than those who receive a purely secular education? Yes-but not by much, is the unenthusiastic conclusion of a new survey of U.S. parochial schools called The Education of Catholic Americans (Aldine; $8.95). Financed by a $250,000 grant from the Carnegie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Degrees of Devotion | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

Sir: The "non-religion of the future" predicted by Religious Atheist Marie Guyau in 1886 is coming into existence. In 1957 Martin Buber told a Unitarian minister: "The old distinctions between religion and non-religion are dead. Religion has nothing to do with church attendance as such nor with doctrinal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 22, 1966 | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

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