Word: atheism
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...real figure is well over 80 percent, but you wouldn't know it to look at a crowd. Steering that middle course between atheism and fundamentalism often puts one on slippery ground. Often it is easier not even to try to explain how one can believe in God but not school prayer, or in the Supreme Being but not every word in the Gospels...
...agnostic Protestant leaning toward atheism. My father was a doctor; my upbringing was very scientific, and I couldn't see any scientific reason for believing in God," says Coggins, now known by his spiritual name Dhananjaya Pandita Dasa...
...practice, the regime has placed rigid limits upon churches, synagogues and mosques and waged a campaign of oppression against believers. The training of religious leaders is tightly restricted, and religious education of children under the age of 18 is illegal. At the same time, all schoolchildren are indoctrinated in atheism...
Olga, whose mother had earlier refused to let her learn Russian, quickly picked up both Russian and Georgian, but she still had trouble adapting. She defiantly wore a large cross, to the annoyance of school officials charged with teaching the government's doctrine of atheism. She got little help from her half brother and sister. Said she: "We didn't know what to say to each other...
...more than a generation, the Roman Catholic Church in Eastern Europe has been vigorously attacked by Communist regimes. The East bloc countries have promoted atheism, and some of them have arrested high church officials and priests, suppressed religious orders and all but abolished religious education. Determined to strengthen the church's position and that of its estimated 106 million followers in the Soviet satellites, Pope John Paul II has often bluntly denounced antireligious acts. Last week the Pope issued a 47-page encyclical honoring Cyril and Methodius, two 9th century saints who were missionaries to the Slavs...