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...bearded Rev. Yakov Zhidkov, Baptists are doing nicely. Each year, he said, the Russian Baptist Church gains 10,000 to 15,000 members. He added blandly: "Under the Russian constitution all religions have equal freedom of worship. The atheists have freedom too, and they have places where they teach atheism." Said the Rev. Alexander Kircun of Warsaw: "We have baptisms out of doors by the river and can preach as much as we want...
...must have used as your source material, can in no way be considered concrete, authoritative evidence. Ataturk achieved many great reforms, among which was the secularization of the Turkish state, but he never said, or even implied, that this separation of the state from religion was in favor of atheism or irreverence for Islam. Ataturk personally believed in the teachings of Islam and had a great respect for Mohammed...
...told, the book is the work of a rebel against both the limp cliches of romance and the inverse pieties of atheism...
...Mold. In Mexico the candidate's religious views may range from Catholicism to atheism, but he will not be a Protestant. He may be privately pro-U.S. (as is Ruiz Cortines, who has periodic friendly telephone chats with President Eisenhower), but publicly he must be reserved. His political views must not be too far right or he will lose the support of ex-President Lazaro Cardenas (1934-40), who expropriated foreign oil holdings and launched ambitious land reforms. They must not be too far left or he will not have the support of ex-President Miguel Aleman...
...Humanism is as much of a modern blight as atheism, said Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro in an address to Catholic Action in Milan. "The development of humanism-understood as a shifting of history's and life's center from God to man-has become a part of man's mentality, and has grown through the centuries to the point that besides atheism there has grown up an indifference to God, a habit of mind wherein the need of God is not felt in that man feels sufficient unto himself. In this atmosphere God is relegated to the place...