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...would such a woman, an Oxford graduate and the daughter of a wealthy London real estate agent, choose to devote her life to death? One answer is her religion. Converted from atheism as a gawky, somewhat gauche, young woman, she went through a period of evangelistic fervor, during which she was a Billy Graham counselor, before she finally settled into the Anglican church. Her faith created much apprehension among doctors when St. Christopher's first opened. "We suspected she wanted to produce deathbed conversions," says Consulting Psychiatrist Colin Murray Parkes. "How wrong we were." Insists Dame Cicely: "There...
...positions from two fixed points: his Roman Catholic faith and his anti-Communist passion. Understanding his motives and drives, however, requires some adjustment. Most liberals consider Buckley a member of the privileged class. But as Judis describes him, Buckley sees himself as an outsider and counterrevolutionary battling entrenched atheism, collectivism and moral relativism...
...seen by an immense constituency of collectors and museumgoers as the quintessential Jewish artist of the 20th century, even though he was not Orthodox and professed, if anything, a discreet and nonmilitant atheism. He had a lyric, flyaway, enraptured imagination, allied to an enviable fluency of hand; the former could weaken into marzipan poignancy, the latter into routine charm. He left behind him an oeuvre of paintings, drawings, prints, book illustrations, private and public art of every kind, rivaling Picasso's in size, if not always in variety or intensity. The number of novice collectors who cut their milk teeth...
Despite the official atheism of his native land, the professor from the Soviet Union's P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute said he attributed an active role to a divine figure...
...premise of our society is the right to privacy and personal belief. This is not to say that religion should be taught as a science in this secular world. We're living in a secular world, which all too often seems to cater to atheism and agnosticism. While those fundamentalists who proselytize mercilessly and are violently intolerant are wrong, not all religion should be weeded out of our society. There is plenty of room in the middle ground...