Word: atheist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know that no matter how much a nation may desire to hold itself aloof and to keep apart from the struggle it cannot escape war's terrible effects." Hilaire Belloc, British historian: "The world gained by the Great War a demonstration in practice that the atheist doctrine and tradition of which Prussia had been the increasingly successful exponent for 150 years would ultimately prove weaker than the culture of Christendom." John Maynard Keynes, famed British economist: "I don't know!" Wilhelm Hohenzollern* apparently instructed his Secretary, Admiral H. von Rebeur-Paschwitz, to write the following letter, of which...
...Oxford's freedom proved a dangerous drug to the impressionable Shelley. He rapidly conceived an intense loathing of the whole social order, the marriage contract in particular. He became an atheist. Most Oxford men go through such phases, but Shelley was supersensitive and these seeming sane ideas crystallized into a philosophy. He became for life, with notable exceptions, vir sui judicii. The writing and distribution to the Dons of the Necessity of Atheism ended his Oxford sojourn with cataclysmic suddenness. Shelley was "sent down...
...Grant was very vehement in striking at his conservative opponents. "In the sixteen hundreds," he said, "religious questions were political questions, and an atheist or a Baptist was an anarchist. We are returning to such a condition, and can seen in religious bigotry, and ignorance, and persecution, a political threat. The basis of all this conservative certitude and attack upon progressiveness is to be favored in the miraculous character of the religious they profess and the sense of providential care and direction under which they flourish. If Jesus is to return in clouds of glory and snatch up Brother Stratton...
...Thomas Jefferson: . . . "looked upon (by his enemies) as an atheist, a liar, and a demagogue...
...editions. The sixth edition is an English translation recently published.- In 1911 Papini shocked even the ultra radical thinkers of Europe by his The Memoirs of God, a book of such extreme atheism that it was considered the last word in blasphemy. The author was the son of an atheist and confessed that he had an extreme dislike for the church from earliest childhood. His mother had him baptized secretly. He became one of the leading literary men of Italy because of his brilliant attacks on even such philosophical systems as Haeckel or Nietzsche could construct. He was known...