Word: atheism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the shifting certitudes of Communism. Albert Camus has too lucid a mind and too scrupulous a moral conscience to opt for such relatively easy solutions. With each successive book, he seems to be sweeping closer to a Niagara of faith, albeit he paddles strenuously upstream towards his professed atheism. Witty, skeptical, man-intoxicated, Camus may never take the final leap of religious faith, but he is already one of the richest intellectual assets of the Western world, if only for his power of negative thinking and his restless, questing humanism...
...bearded Rev. Yakov Zhidkov, Baptists are doing nicely. Each year, he said, the Russian Baptist Church gains 10,000 to 15,000 members. He added blandly: "Under the Russian constitution all religions have equal freedom of worship. The atheists have freedom too, and they have places where they teach atheism." Said the Rev. Alexander Kircun of Warsaw: "We have baptisms out of doors by the river and can preach as much as we want...
...must have used as your source material, can in no way be considered concrete, authoritative evidence. Ataturk achieved many great reforms, among which was the secularization of the Turkish state, but he never said, or even implied, that this separation of the state from religion was in favor of atheism or irreverence for Islam. Ataturk personally believed in the teachings of Islam and had a great respect for Mohammed...
...told, the book is the work of a rebel against both the limp cliches of romance and the inverse pieties of atheism...
...Mold. In Mexico the candidate's religious views may range from Catholicism to atheism, but he will not be a Protestant. He may be privately pro-U.S. (as is Ruiz Cortines, who has periodic friendly telephone chats with President Eisenhower), but publicly he must be reserved. His political views must not be too far right or he will lose the support of ex-President Lazaro Cardenas (1934-40), who expropriated foreign oil holdings and launched ambitious land reforms. They must not be too far left or he will not have the support of ex-President Miguel Aleman...