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That would undoubtedly have been that, if Rome's daily Avanti had not remarked that the Venice jury had honored a movie ridiculing religion. The Vatican's Osservatore Romano followed up with an editorial headed BLASPHEMOUS PARODY WINS PRIZE. "Designed to diffuse atheism," cried Osservatore. "The show amounts to making a grotesque laughingstock of the Holy Scriptures and implicitly of God Almighty himself...
Some Humanists are agnostics; others, like myself, are atheists. But this tells as little about Humanim as would be learned about Christianity merely from the information that Christians are theists. As Christianity comprises far more than theism, so Humanism, although based upon the naturalistic outlook of agnosticism and atheism, extends far beyond that premise. Humanism assimilates the spirit and substance of modern science and democracy, and incorporates the dynamic aspects of our civilization. In its concern for mankind, it equals, if indeed it does not surpass, the highest ethical level which any traditional religion has yet reached...
...Roman Catholic Sister of Charity, was soon assigned to nurse the Englishmen who had destroyed her world. In a Dublin hospital she found another man whom she could have loved: a vehemently cynical British soldier, so badly wounded that death seemed sure to overtake him in his bitter atheism-and-her hope of finding her salvation by effecting...
Marxism appeals to some Moslem intellectuals, Zenkovsky declared, not because they believe in it, but because it offers them a force and dynamism to take revenge on the West for centuries of humiliations. Despite its atheism, Marxism's cosmopolitan outlook and social element make it in many respects similar in structure to the philosophy of Islam, Zenkovsky said...
...with the shifting certitudes of Communism. Albert Camus has too lucid a mind and too scrupulous a moral conscience to opt for such relatively easy solutions. With each successive book, he seems to be sweeping closer to a Niagara of faith, albeit he paddles strenuously upstream towards his professed atheism. Witty, skeptical, man-intoxicated, Camus may never take the final leap of religious faith, but he is already one of the richest intellectual assets of the Western world, if only for his power of negative thinking and his restless, questing humanism...