Word: atheistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anti-Nazi Lutheran martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote prophetically to a friend from his Berlin prison cell: 'We are proceeding toward a time of no religion at all.' For many, that time has arrived . 'Personally, I've never been confronted with the question of God,' says one ... politely indifferent atheist, Dr. Claude Levi-Strauss, professor of social anthropology at the College de France. 'I find it's perfectly possible to spend my life knowing that we will never explain the universe.' Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray points to ... the atheism of distraction, people who are just 'too damn busy' to worry...
...Edward Starkey, president of the Ecumenical Council of San Diego Country, which represents about 100 churches, in reference to an atheist group's reserving a city park for Easter services before the Christian groups that usually hold services there could...
...week when Steinhardt, 54, announced that he was winding down the four high-performing hedge funds he has guided almost flawlessly for 28 years. Wall Street struggled to imagine what his definition of retirement might be. Not one to disappoint, the financial whiz explained that although he is an atheist, he hopes to infuse American society with secular Jewish values...
...child of an atheist and a lapsed Catholic, I was raised without specific ideas about God and prayer. I elected to join the Unitarian Church with my parents because no one there told me what I ought to think and supported me in my efforts to to a spiritual understanding...
Contrary to Mr. Gingrich's opinion, it is bad to have "pressure to pray." Violating the religious freedoms of even the tiny minority of atheist or agnostic students only shows all the children that freedom of religion is a relative thing. The students whose rights are being stepped on will learn that their rights are not as important as the rights of those who have mainstream beliefs, and will come to feel like second-class citizens. The students whose beliefs are mainstream will come to see that they need not respect different beliefs. These are not the lessons that...