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When West Europeans drop out of church, as large majorities do, they typically lose interest in belief too, but America remains unpromising ground for atheism and agnosticism. One of the most intriguing discoveries in Roof's research for A Generation of Seekers (Harper San Francisco) is the growth of what he calls "believers but not belongers." Americans who leave religious institutions do not necessarily abandon religious faith. Even most dropouts say they believe in God; though one-third also believe in reincarnation, ghosts and astrology. The God of their understanding is not necessarily the personal, all-powerful and all-knowing...
...Judaism. All religion is fundamentally an attempt to explain the reasons behind and origins of the universe. Just as monotheists and polytheists believe on faith that one or more divine beings created the universe, atheists, just as much on faith, believe that no higher plan is behind the cosmos. Atheism is no more an objective truth than any other existential theory...
...academia. While faith on God has been purged from education in the name of religious freedom, disbelief in God has been evangelicized in its place. Science classes, once the haven of facts and theories backed by empirical evidence, should not become the pulpit, even inadvertently, for the preaching of atheism. Purely subjective arguments, like those that the evolution of life was "unplanned" and without purposeful design, should be recognized for what they are: religious theories, not scientific facts...
Perhaps the sky so dominates the Russian earth that it compels thoughts of eternity. After decades of officially sponsored atheism, the Russians remain a profoundly spiritual people. To mark the 600th anniversary of the death of St. Sergius of Radonezh, an enormous banner recently appeared on the facade of the Historical Museum in Red Square. It bore the slogan REVEREND FATHER SERGIUS, PRAY TO GOD FOR US. An outsider would see the irony in a saint occupying the spot once reserved for larger-than-life portraits of Marx and Lenin. Not a Russian. During a recent missionary crusade...
...scholar argued against the logic of atheism and attempted to prove the reasonableness of Christianity and of Jesus' claims to "the exclusivity of truth...