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...apostate whose followers had torn up the Koran outside his office door shouting: "Death to Arab nationalism, death to Islam!" Nasser, who hitherto has hesitated to make a jihad, or holy war, against his Arab enemies, now invoked this highly charged cry against the Kassem regime and its atheist Communist comrades. (Use of such dangerous religious passions for political purposes may be effective against the Reds, but it also upsets Lebanese Christians and other non-Islamic Arabs...
...thus acclaimed is also denounced by some orthodox Christian believers as not a Christian at all and possibly an outright atheist. Faith, according to Tillich. is not belief in God but "ultimate concern." Hence an atheist is a believer, too, unless he is wholly indifferent to the ultimate questions. Doubt is an in evitable part of faith. Sin is not some thing one commits, but a state of "estrangement" from one's true self. "The importance of being a Christian is that we can stand the insight that it is of no importance." says Tillich; the religious...
...West Germany. The asking price: West German withdrawal from NATO, renunciation of nuclear weapons (which, the Russians indicated to the British, they regard as more dangerous in German hands than in any others). Khrushchev conceded that Adenauer would prefer NATO to a German confederation. But by so doing, said Atheist Khrushchev piously, Catholic Adenauer is rejecting "both the Christian and atheist" road to peace: "To live in friendship and to do everything to prevent the rule of evil on earth." And since Adenauer is an old man, he had best mend his ways fast, or, "according to Christian belief...
Thus the U.S.S.R.'s Boris Pasternak, who once described himself as "almost an atheist," seems to summon his readers to stand-not before the official Communist deity, which is a thing called history-but before the divinity of Jesus. This helps to explain why Doctor Zhivago, the greatest Russian novel since the Revolution, will not be read in Russia. The poem is attributed to the novel's hero, who supposedly leaves it with a sheaf of other verse as his legacy, but it plainly speaks for Pasternak and his gentle genius...
...their Marxist war against Christianity, East Germany's Communists try to abolish as many religious rites as possible, but they have found that even certified atheists have a hankering for ceremony. Result: an atheist liturgy in which the Communists have substituted "name-givings" for christenings, "youth dedications" for confirmations and "secular funeral orations" for religious burials. Latest addition: the "socialist wedding...