Word: atheistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe religion isn't just the opiate of the masses. Supreme socialist FIDEL CASTRO certainly seemed dazzled by his visit to POPE JOHN PAUL II last week. Reporters weren't invited to a meeting that incensed many Cuban exiles, so we can only speculate what the atheist and the anti-Marxist talked about. The Catholic teachers that schooled each of them back in the '30s? Why Castro expelled all those priests? How the Pope helped bring about the demise of Marxist Europe? More likely, they touched on the trade embargoes against Cuba, which both oppose, and the possibility...
Before you get too carried away with the importance of faith and healing, let me remind you that a good, positive-minded atheist is just as likely to be healthy and to heal quickly as the person who chooses to dwell in the bubble of religious fantasy. GEORGE CROSTA Ocean Park, Washington...
...patients: Is religion important to you? Is it important in how you cope with your illness? If the answers are yes, doctors might ask whether the patient would like to discuss his or her faith with the hospital chaplain or another member of the clergy. "You can be an atheist and say this," Larson insists. Not doing so, he argues, is a disservice to the patient...
...student union and the local branch of the Komsomol Communist youth organization. Svetlana Voronina, a former classmate, remembers him as a voracious reader. ''Every book I bought on trips to Moscow, he wanted to read," she says. One Zyuganov favorite was a book titled Raising Children in the Atheist Manner. Mindful of his nationalist supporters, for whom the Orthodox Church is inextricably linked to Russia's identity, Zyuganov now brags about having read the Bible (twice) and has eliminated the party's ban on religion...
...found a Mormon community that I can hang out with. I haven't run into any problems," said Redhair, who cited his friendly relations with his Catholic, Protestant and atheist roommates...