Word: agnosticism
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Close to Billy. The participants belonged to the 17-year-old Evangelical Theological Society, whose 750 members are divided about equally between mainstream Protestants and adherents of such sects as the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Speaking for an intellectual conservatism within U.S. Protestantism, Evangelicals shun the label-and company-of fundamentalists...
"Obviously," Mansfield commented, "the law is way out of its depth." He went on to point out that in the case of an agnostic pacifist, Daniel Seeger, the Court threw out the Supreme Being requirement and put on a broad interpretation on "religious belief." But the decision in Seeger's...
In this wittily ironic memoir, Lenard blithely confesses that all the rumors are true. Unlike most memoirists, he is crisply cryptic about his own improbable early life. But with delight and charm, he descants on life in his adopted home in Southern Brazil. If he seems to resemble Albert Schweitzer...
"Goodness & Virtue." The decision involved three men of such individualistic faiths that their draft boards did not credit them with having "a belief in a Supreme Being" as the draft act demands for exemption from duty. New Yorker Daniel Seeger is an agnostic who believes in "goodness and virtue for...
In 1943, the court voided a West Virginia law compelling school children to salute the flag even though the ritual was contrary to their religious beliefs. In a memorable dissent, arguing that the Constitution permitted West Virginia to enact "a general nondiscriminatory civil regulation," Frankfurter summed up his entire judicial...