Word: atheist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mother and torn up by the Abbé Bethlehem, I smashed a few of those idolatrous images sold by the accomplices of priesthood. They seem to me fully as poisonous to the soul as any magazine my mother ever sold. My father was an agnostic. I am an atheist. I defy the Abbé Bethlehem - coward, despoiler of honest women, IDOLATER...
Soon the pious Abbé and the impetuous atheist felt the cold, im partial rigor of the Code Napoleon. Each was severely reprimanded, each was fined eleven francs...
...bully bigger than Gantry, "Old Jud" Roberts, praying (and weeping) fullback from Chicago, holds a chest-pound-ing, fistshaking, handshaking, "manly challenge" revival. "HellCat" confesses publicly. The half-baked atheism of "Hell-Cat's" only friend and roommate, Jim Lefferts, is no match for raw afflatus. Unwittingly the atheist supplies all that the convert needs for his "Call" and ordination. The Holy Spirit enters Elmer Gantry, in a timely jolt of Bourbon...
...grinding gained him his necessary bread; no more. When his writings attracted attention, he declined offers of aid, indifferent to whether men called him "this famous atheist" or "the God-intoxicated man." After he died, "people talked of Spinoza as if he were a dead dog.'' But lenses found in his cabinet paid all his mortuary expenses...
...Atheist Editor Ernest V. Sterry of the Christian Enquirer went to jail at Toronto last week, as he expected he would do when he called God "an irate old party," "this touchy Jehovah"; snorted at His preference "for roast cutlet to that of boiled cabbage" (competitive sacrifices of Abel and Cain), "His whims, freaks and fancies," "His frenzied, megalomaniac boastings." This constitutes blasphemous, indecent and profane libel against the Christian religion and the Bible, said Crown Attorney (prosecutor) E. J. Murphy of Toronto, at last week's preliminary trial. He would not have been so provoked if Editor Sterry...