Word: atheistic
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...fair, Harvard is not alone in picking on dissident professors. Yale recently terminated renowned Professor of Anthropology David Graeber solely for his anarchist beliefs, while many other schools have let go of faculty for socialist, atheist, pro-Palestinian, or purportedly “anti-American” views. One can disagree strongly with all of these views and still recognize a professor’s right to hold them. This is what civil liberties were made...
Style Idol: Sorry, I’m an atheist...
...theologically consistent with the theory of mutation and selection. Some people believe that God is guiding the process from moment to moment. Others think he set up the universe from the Big Bang to unfold like a computer program. Others take scientific positions that are indistinguishable from those atheist materialists might take but say that their nonscientific intuitions or philosophical considerations or the existence of the mind lead them to deduce that there...
...whence Mrs. Cain, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel. Mr. Darrow bellowed his purpose to "show up Fundamentalism, to prevent bigots and ignoramuses from controlling education in the U. S." Mr. Bryan shook his fist, roared back his purpose "to protect the Word of God from the greatest atheist and agnostic in the United States...
...drama: the mystery play and the horror show. The complementary doctrines of faith and expiation set the tone for an ageold debate. To the faithful, the church is a magisterial edifice built on the miracle of mankind's redemption by a loving God made flesh. To the cynical atheist, it is a cult based on transcendental cannibalism: the belief that one can achieve salvation by literally consuming God in the form of the Eucharist. To the agnostic outsider, with neither grace nor grudges, the church is an elaborately carved door behind which lies the enigma of human existence...