Word: atheism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brief, the unfolding of the creative potentialities of these two countries for the period mentioned has been greater than of any other great nation. There is not a slightest doubt that it will continue in the future. There is no room to continue these similarities. But what about Communism, Atheism, Red Imperialism, enigmatic Stalin and so on? Are they not bound to clash with the "American way of life?" Hardly...
...found out and took him to the church, talking about her atheism on the way. In the run-down structure Graebner saw that its worshipers were "mostly elderly women with pale, deeply lined faces partly covered with grey shawls. . . . Every few seconds they gave the sign of the cross or touched their foreheads to the floor. Most of them seemed much happier afterwards...
...When asked "Did the movement add anything to your intellectual equipment?" 45% said no and "only seven answered yes and at the same time supplied convincing illustration." One man declared that while he was a Buchmanite, "thinking seemed to me atheism." Said another: "I put my trust in guidance and failed my examinations...
...before you and the world that ... I have been decisively influenced and molded by the spiritual forces of Christianity and the Catholic Church. I see 'in the holy Catholic Church the purest power and emanation sent by God to this earth to fight the evils of materialism and atheism, and to bring revelation to the poor soul of mankind. That is why, although standing extra muros [outside the walls], I have made it my purpose to support with my modest and humble abilities the struggle which the Catholic Church fights against those evils and for the divine truth...
...President shifts his tack, says he hopes "an entering wedge for the practice of complete freedom of religion [in Russia] is definitely on the way." President Luther Allan Weigle of the Federal Council of Churches attacks the weasel wording of the Soviet Government, says it "supports atheism as the accepted philosophy of the State." Monsignor Michael J. Ready, general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, is closeted with the President for 45 minutes...