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...easy to be an atheist, a skeptic. My hope is that students will dare to be emotionally honest, instead of falling into an easy blase attitude... The most individualistic thing to do on the Harvard campus now would be to become a religious...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Jewish Students Profess Identity, Discard Belief | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...were either "born of parents who considered themselves Jewish, even though you have discarded Jewish ideas," or "have interest in certain cultural features common to Jewish tradition." Significantly, no one reached by the survey stated that he completely rejected his Judaism, although one admitted that he was a "Jewish atheist." In total 42 per cent of the Jews polled did not believe in a "one-person...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Jewish Students Profess Identity, Discard Belief | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...especially conworship and prayer and by a firmer cerning feminine equality. The spirit of Carrie Nation showed through in one girl's answer to the question, "Would you have any objections to the election as President of the United States of a Roman Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew, an atheist or agnostic." She checked her objection to "an atheist" with this remark: "if he made a public point about it. Otherwise it's his or her own business...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Radcliffe Links Family to Religious Interests | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...Would you have any objections to the election as President of the United States of: (check all appropriate) 63-246 a Roman Catholic; 6-304 a Protestant; 43-267 a Jew; 47-251 an atheist or agnostic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of the Questionnaire | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...join in a "decisive battle" against Israel last fall. And at Cairo's 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University, world center of Islamic learning, the rector or "sheik of Islam" urged the Iraqi faithful "to rise as one man" in defense against Communism's alien and atheist threat to the faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: The Dry & the Wet | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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