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Religion. The State no longer interferes with the right of adults to worship or believe as they please. All members of the Communist Party, the political oligarchy which governs Russia, must however profess total atheism...
Persons under 18 years of age may not receive religious instruction, but efforts are consistently made to convert every schoolchild to atheism...
...results of two questionnaires were announced. The ponderous "lower middle class," which historians delight in calling the backbone of the nation, voted 75% solidly for Christianity in the London Daily News poll. But the suave sophisticates, the dreamy litterateurs who read the Nation and Athenaeum (London weekly) leaned toward atheism, agnosticism...
...Charles Smith of Manhattan, president of an Association for the Advancement of Atheism, found his way into public prints last week. Experiments were to be conducted, he said, at the Pasteur Institute of Kindia, French West Africa, to "support" Evolution by breeding apes with humans. Soviet Russia had contributed $10,000. A total of $100,000 was needed over a period of years. Eminent Professor Elie Ivanoff of Moscow had already departed for Africa to make preparations...
Atheists v. Chaplains. Publicity-seeking perhaps, religious conviction certainly, last week led the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism to file suit in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to prevent the Government from paying chaplains attached to the Senate and House and the Army and Navy. The chaplains have had as yet no opportunity to rebut this unexpected attack upon their long-established functionings...