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Mockery & Ecstasy. Young Twain permitted himself a coarse though spirited mixture of cornball humor, village atheist mockery, and a mulishly provincial contempt for most people and things foreign. The Portuguese were "lazy louts," the Neapolitans were "a bad lot," the Greeks were "a community of thieves," Jews were "greasy," Italians groped "in the midnight of priestly superstition," and Arabs "carried passengers in their hair." Beneath the invective lurked a cultural inferiority complex and a desperate anxiety not to be taken in. Twain regarded religious relics and purported miracles as "frauds" and "swindles": "I find a piece of the true cross...
...precarious was Mother's way of life that young O'Connor once spent two years near Boulogne with a French family before Mother was able to raise the money to fetch him back. A few years later he was handed over permanently to a guardian-an atheist who wanted "something, as we say, to 'lavish his love upon.' " O'Connor embraced "bohemianism. surrealism and D. H. Lawrence." Between a weakness for Communism, a yen for "snatches of Nietzsche," and the desire to be both "a Messiah" and a wolf, he turned into a fantastic "actor...
...Divinity School should establish a chair of "Naturalistic Humanism," Harold R. Rafton '10, a confirmed atheist, has asserted in a letter to the Alumni Bulletin...
Rafton says he is an atheist because he holds that arguments for God require proof. He feels that no adequate proof of the existence of God has ever been advanced...
...think as much of him as he does. Lennie has no humor about his egomania. I do." On love: "Because of my attentiveness to other women on the show, my wife told me I ought to get a divorce and settle down." On theology: "An atheist is a man with no invisible means of support...