Word: atheism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find it incredible their otherwise intelligent friends believe in a God, a Virgin Birth or the Resurrection of Christ. Others find it incredible that their otherwise intelligent friends can deny the existence of a Creator and fail to see the Bible as divine revelation. In a new book called Atheism in Our Time (Macmillan; $5), Father Ignace Lepp, 53, who goes on the assumption that "neither belief nor unbelief can be adequately explained by bad faith," undertakes to define the varieties of modern unbelief...
...atheism, says Lepp, does not bother to debate with Christianity. It self-confidently proclaims the death of God and man's freedom from supernatural authority and seeks to build "a radically 'natural' civilization, without reference to any kind of transcendence." There are probably as many kinds of atheism as there are atheists, but Lepp's major classifications...
...RATIONALIST. Lepp has considerably more respect and sympathy for the kind of atheism espoused by many modern scientists who deny the existence of God after making a reasoned study of the universe; he sees that "rational agnosticism is connatural to certain very positivistic forms of intelligence...
...COMMUNISM: Thanks to Pope John's new opening toward the East, Roman Catholicism "may succeed in reaching a sensible accord with Communist countries before Protestants do." Unchanged are Earth's often-argued views that "the subtle forms of materialist atheism in the West are a much graver threat to Christianity than the overtly trumpeted atheism of the Communists. I don't take this Communist atheism too dramatically. At least we know where we stand with them...
...article entitled "The Moral Obligations of Civil Defense," Dr. Fred W. Kern, Director of the Religious Affairs Office of the Federal Office of Civil Defense, expounds his belief that, "Atheism has made civil defense necessary," and that by believing in God's purpose for America, the country can protect itself. Varicom, Inc., of Boulder, Colorado, manufactures a civil defense public "communications kit," a series of films that "builds within a man an appreciation of his American heritage and causes him to see civil defense as a positive way to insure that heritage." Thus a shelter program may force the government...