Word: atheistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office. My husband and I broke up and he left me with debts and three children. My baby was six months. The fast buck, your tips. The first ten-dollar bill that I got as a tip, a Viking guy gave to me. He was a very robust, terrific atheist. Made very good conversation for us, 'cause...
...anything to bring Christ into Mountain Brook. He used to speak once a week at Morning Watch (a daily prayer gathering of students and teachers) and warn that all non-believers would burn in Hell unless they saw THE WAY. But the crowd was usually mixed, half Jewish and atheist hecklers and the other half holy-rolling believers...
...hippie should, he had set himself to prove that those of his students who professed to believe in God and those who professed to disbelieve actually shared the same belief, presumably some sort of Siddharthian, soothing idea about the unity of the universe, so he had picked out five atheist and five theist volunteers...
...PROFESSOR looked a little dazed. "Well," he hazarded, turning to the first atheist volunteer, "probably you would not agree with that statement." The first atheist volunteer allowed that this was so. It was moments like this, I am convinced, that led Herry Adams to say that "disappointment apart, Harvard College was probably less hurtful than any other university then is existence." Disappointment apart, it is possible that it still is. At least by the beginning of my second year I no longer felt compelled to tell myself, when for example a dedicated member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Republicans assured...
...well," I.A. Richards observed tactfully, "you're right, of course, about the colors." And, of course, he was right about the colors. I.A. Richards wouldn't have said it if he hadn't believed it was true, any more then the theist or atheist volunteers of for that matter the cat who would not refrain from clawing the furniture when he thought that was in the nature of cats. So I decided and still decide that I liked I.A. Richards, and I liked the theist an atheist volunteers, and I liked the cat, and with all its failings I even...