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...family (like De Vries's own) are Dutch Calvinists who worship "a god scarcely distinguishable from the devil they fear." But when his elder brother dies pointlessly at the age of 19, Don loses his faith and adopts his brother's creed of worldliness and atheism...
...dinner laid on in his honor by the American Jewish League Against Communism, Columnist George Sokolsky, 68, found a bright side to Russia's heavy-handed treatment of its Jewish citizens. Said Sokolsky: "It is inevitable that a movement based on atheism be antiSemitic. The Communists must hate us. We want them to hate us. It gives us pride and dignity that we don't count them among our friends...
...COMMUNISM, Dr. Bennett has long warned Christians against thinking that God is automatically on the side of the West: "The very atheism of Communism is a judgment upon the churches, which for so long were unconcerned about the victims of the Industrial Revolution and early capitalism and which have usually been ornaments of the status quo, no matter how unjust it has been. The temptation to turn the cold war into a holy crusade is ever with us, and insofar as we yield to it, we make impossible the tolerance and humaneness which must yet come into international relations...
...example is the new relationship between atheism and belief in God. Many a modern intellectual who calls himself an atheist is really engaged in a creative search for the divine, said Miller. He recalled that Albert Camus once said he did not believe in God but was not an atheist, for "that is far too easy an answer." Wrote Gabriel Marcel: "When we speak of God, it is not God we speak...
Living Revelation. Said Miller: "If atheism marks the honest recognition of insufficient representations in the light of new dimensions of reality, then atheism is not by itself an irreligious stance. It is the movement of the spirit by which religion itself may be saved from itself. Nothing could be more tragic than to find ourselves hugging our own sanctified, even pseudo-Christian idol, blind and hostile to the living revelation of God's mystery in our own time...