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Above all, it is his version of existentialism, a philosophical air-raid shelter that he erected for Europe's disillusioned intellectuals after World War II, that seems rather outdated today. It is essentially a conjuring trick-a preachment of faith without belief, of free will to no purpose. "Atheism is a cruel and long-range affair," Sartre has said. Always faithful in this affair, never publicly flirting with hope or grace (as did his fellow existentialist and fellow Nobel winner Albert Camus), Sartre takes atheism to its grim limits. Man as he sees him is alone in an absurd...
...sheme and story of the Book Pedlar," she says in a small printed note of explanation. "Today, with the realization that we are living in an age when the world stands at a great spiritual crossroad--there is a definite need to distinguish truth from error. Militant atheism is waging a concerted battle for the control of the minds of men...and Americans are challenged to meet this threat. In addition, socialistic and tolitaritan [sic] forms of government threaten to dilute our American principle of 'government...
...COMMUNISM: Pleasing the conservatives, Paul denounced it by name. He called atheism "the most serious problem of our time." Yet he seemed to encourage keeping lines open to the Communists. "The Church should enter into dialogue with the world, in which she exists and labors," he wrote, and added that "we do not despair" that atheistic ideologies such as Communism might one day be able "to enter into a more positive dialogue with the Church...
...major center of persecution of Jews nowadays is the Soviet Union. In a land openly dedicated to atheism, the 3,000,000 Jews of Russia suffer more than any other faith because they are attacked both for their religion and as a despised national minority. Last week in Washington, more than 500 representatives from 24 U.S. Jewish organizations gathered to plan the kind of loud foreign protest that so far has proved the best curb on Soviet antiSemitism...
...atheism is to succeed, warned Commission Chairman Leonid Ilyichev, non-believers must embark on a person-to-person campaign - "more heart-to-heart talks, frank explanations and patient conversations." He suggested the formation of Young Atheist clubs, whose members could enter into anti-religious dialogues with believers, such as warning pregnant women about the physical dangers involved in baptism and circumcision...