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...tough, bulletheaded little atheist who calls on God to witness that his hands are clean and his heart is pure has recently been giving the church in Russia a hard time. A more flexible kind of anti-Christian than Stalin, Khrushchev put new life into Russian atheism, began recruiting renegade churchmen instead of party hacks to wean Russians away from the temptations of religion...
Judas As Hero. In his perfervid way, Kazantzakis returns to the pagan and Greek credo that "man is the measure of all things." This notion got him into trouble with the Greek Orthodox hierarchy as far back as 1939, when it publicly accused him of atheism. In 1954 the Vatican put Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ on the Index of forbidden books. In that novel, due for fall publication in the U.S., Judas emerges as a hero since he helps Christ to fulfill his mission of redeeming mankind. At the time of the Vatican edict, Kazantzakis fired...
...this, intoned Komsomolskaya Pravda, is symptomatic of a dreadful laxity. First, if Sasha's classmates had been the militant atheists they should have been, they would have found out about his non-atheism earlier and gone to work on him. And second, they should never have admitted him. "In our country," lectured Komsomolskaya Pravda, "the first country of mass atheism in the world, religion is a citizen's private affair. But how can Komsomol members consider religion a private affair when it affects the Komsomol? They were not admitting him to a club of pigeon fanciers...
...churches are warmer and cozier than the clubs. Example: without openly taking the offensive, but "quietly and peacefully," the Russian Orthodox Church has infiltrated the industrial region around Perm in the Urals, so that "alongside the universities of culture, universities of obscurantism flourish." Unlike the propagandists for atheism, "these holy fathers are not deterred from their duties either by cold or by impassable roads...
...least as candid as she is philosophically stubborn. Her memoirs of girlhood owe most of their charm to the surprising fact that her origins were Catholic, her upbringing puritan. She describes all this with considerable grace, ends with a conversion to Sartre's atheism which seems from her own testimony to be just another straitjacket, but one she can wear with arrogance...