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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...