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...stinging words, they are people who would exploit both religion and society "for personal peace and pleasure." They would also "tyrannize man, impose a Utopia, and win heaven by doing the works of the law." Such attitudes, the authors conclude, exemplify what Lutherans have historically feared as "practical atheism...
...AGNOSTIC-Augustine Caffrey, 48, former Jesuit priest. Fairfield University President William Mclnnes declared that a professor at the Catholic institution could not teach theology while questioning the faith. Fairfield's board of trustees rebuffed Mclnnes and supported Caffrey, who is currently teaching Problems of Atheism...
...Soviet citizens-not just Jews -suffer from the Soviet government's policy of militant atheism and its refusal to consider migration as a right rather than a rare privilege," Davies said. He added that Jews were treated worse than other minorities, harassed by "anti-Zionist" campaigns and "deprived of the cultural ingredients needed to preserve their cultural and religious identity." He said that the State Department "deplored" this and was doing what it could to help. At the same time, Davies warned against exaggeration. "Claims that Soviet Jews as a community are living in a state of terror seem...
Much of Tristana's success lies in the director's scrupulous ambition. Once he was satisfied with the village atheism of Nazarin or the facile eroticism of Belle de Jour. In his 29th film, he is content with nothing less than the face of Spain. Don Lope's backchat with his comrades is an indelible vignette of the inhuman condition, where the aging pick the reputations of their fallen comrades, like buzzards wheeling over cadavers. In the background hover the symbolic figures of deaf-mutes, youths whose voices, like many Spaniards', cannot be heard. Yet Tristana...
...seventh-grade sessions was placed on youngsters' social problems," while even "twelfth graders would learn more about the problems of raising a family than they would about sexual intercourse." Nevertheless, the Antis saw it as the evil of all evils -a Communist plot to brainwash pure-minded America. Atheism, rock 'n' roll, even the U.K. were minor perils beside sex education. It was "programmed perversion," condoning homosexuality, endorsing masturbation-a sneaky death blow at the heart of America: the Family. The Pros, on the other hand, saw the experiment as education at the point of salvation. "Stamp...