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...Blair world is also one in which Judeo-Christian values will flourish. The Major regime had a smack of agnosticism, even atheism, about it, and its endless sex scandals set a low moral tone for the nation. Blair is the first Prime Minister to be a regular Sunday churchgoer since the beginning of the century. What is perhaps more immediately important is that he considers his religious and his political values to be identical, believing that Christian convictions translate directly into politics. One of his chief aims will be to do all in his power to rebuild the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MORAL OF THE STORY | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...dozen-member group, which meets to discuss issues pertaining to atheism, agnosticism, secularism, skepticism and the separation of church and state, spawned this spring from the Harvard Free Thought Society, said President Derek C. Araujo...

Author: By Jay S. Kimmelman, | Title: Students Form New Secular Organization | 3/4/1997 | See Source »

...club has booked several lecturers, including Boston University Professor Michael Martin, who is known for his books on atheism such as The Big Domino...

Author: By Jay S. Kimmelman, | Title: Students Form New Secular Organization | 3/4/1997 | See Source »

...orangutan on television, she snipped, "The Virgin just made another appearance." The public responded in kind. In 1964 LIFE magazine headlined her as "the most hated woman in America," a title she burnished as a badge of honor. Long after it passed on to Jane Fonda (and issues like atheism took a back seat to the Vietnam War debate), people of a certain age continued to follow O'Hair's story. They experienced a frisson when her son Bill, in whose name she originally brought suit, announced on Mother's Day 1980 that he had found God; they were vaguely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE'S MADALYN? | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

DAVID VAN BIEMA, TIME's religion writer, was looking for a way to write about the state of atheism in America when he became intrigued with an even more fascinating story: the bizarre disappearance of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, America's best-known nonbeliever. No one has seen O'Hair since, as legend has it, she walked away from an unfinished breakfast in August 1995. Van Biema's pursuit of the missing activist took him to Austin, Texas, where her organization has its headquarters. The mystery deepened when his sources starting contradicting one another. "Those discrepancies roused my curiosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contributors: Feb. 10, 1997 | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

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