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...rely on established regimes . . . God is greater than the greatest of doctrine man can produce . . . I and my church continue to give testimony of faith. Regardless of conditions, we perpetuate the living church. We must love all men, whether they believe or not." Hromadka bemoaned Communism's atheism, which "weakens church prestige and authority, but also challenges churches to purify themselves." He admitted that "I have certain understanding of and sympathy for the Communists. But I am not a Communist...
...Paris last week, after five days of Intourist tourism, Baptist Graham told reporters he had not been surprised when Russian religious leaders told him that atheism was declining and religion rising in the U.S.S.R. "I could read on the faces of the people a great spiritual hunger, and the sort of insecurity that only God can solve," he said. "We don't like Communism, but we love the Russian people...
...think that your atheism or agnosticism has weakened your ethical ideas and make you take moral arguments less seriously than do believers...
...feel obliged by your atheism or agnosticism to enlighten others by persuading them to abandon their faith
...spite of the fact that the CRIMSON poll or any other informal survey would indicate that Cambridge's undergraduates consider themselves a fairly pious lot, the nature of that piety raises serious questions as to whether any previous century might not have pronounced it tantamount to atheism. The explicit rejection of "all belief in anything that could reasonably be called `god'" as "a fiction unworthy of worship" proved to be the least popular alternative offered by the questionnaire, but a clear plurality of the votes went to "a God about Whom nothing definite can be affirmed except that I sometimes...