Word: atheistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Defenders of prayer in school most often discount the views of the minority, suggesting that they should not infringe on the rights of the majority group. One New Jersey State Assemblyman argued against consideration of the views of atheist students by suggesting they "were so few in number their views could be discounted...
...will deny that the vast majority of pro-lifers are deeply religious. After all, the activity we were engaged in outside the clinic was prayer. But the religious don't have a monopoly on opposition to abortion. Courageous individuals like Nat Hentoff, a Jewish atheist, oppose abortion on philosophical grounds alone. If people of vastly different moral and religious beliefs can join together to fight abortion, I fail to see how it can constitute the imposition of any elaborate moral code...
Chester, a self-proclaimed atheist, said he hascontacted attorneys from the Civil Liberties Unionof Massachusetts and is "exploring my legaloptions...
...arms around [Irv], to brush his rough cheek against mine, to sit down and eat the bread of affliction with him and with Emily and with all of the Warshaws. They weren't my family and it wasn't my holiday, but I was orphaned and an atheist and I would take what I could...
DIED. ANDRE FROSSARD, 80, intellectual editorial writer for the French daily Le Figaro and noted Roman Catholic author of such books as Defense of the Pope (1993) that chronicled his close relationship with the present Pontiff; in Versailles. Frossard was an atheist and leftist in his youth, but, as he recalled in his 1968 best seller God Exists and I Met Him, he became a sudden Catholic convert...