Word: alls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Whither is God?" he cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed him--you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how have we done this? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Has it not become colder? Do we not feel the breath of empty...
In spite of the fact that the CRIMSON poll or any other informal survey would indicate that Cambridge's undergraduates consider themselves a fairly pious lot, the nature of that piety raises serious questions as to whether any previous century might not have pronounced it tantamount to atheism. The explicit...
Except for the Christian version, all of these views present a God whose substance is so tenuous and vague that, like certain very rare gases, it becomes highly enigmatic to say that He is "there" at all. Such a being certainly seems incapable of having much more of an effect...
According to the poll, he himself will likely tell you that, on the whole, his loss of all traditional religious faith did not substantially alter his ethical principles, nor does he feel at all obliged by his convictions to persuade the pious to abandon their beliefs. Incredibly enough, well over...
It is probably no accident that the apostasy rate is higher among Christians than Jews, and among Protestants than Catholics. (Anglicans, incidentally, defect at the rate of one out of every four.) For it was Christianity's natal entanglement with Greek philosophy that yielded the world its first major religion...