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...Faiths. For those not in his power whom he hoped to win as allies, Napoleon had more honeyed words. He was an atheist who hoped, he wrote, to "suppress all monks indiscriminately" and use religion chiefly as a means of teaching docility to growing girls ("There is nothing I dislike so much as a meddlesome woman"). But he readily became "Your Holiness' devoted son" when he needed papal aid-and an ardent Moslem when he invaded Egypt ("There is no other god but God, and Mahomet is his prophet!"). French Jews, he ordered, must be convinced that with...
...finds that the "original Gospel" according to Graves and Podro is a far cry from the canonical books of the New Testament. The canonical books, "judged by Greek literary standards" say Graves & Podro ". . . are poor; by historical standards, unreliable; and their doctrine is confused and contradictory. The late-Victorian atheist (was it Bradlaugh?) may be excused for remarking that they read as though 'concocted by illiterate, half-starved visionaries in some dark corner of a Graeco-Syrian slum...
...Atheist Lancelot Lawrence-described by a hero-worshiper as "the greatest poet in the world." Everyone knows that Lancelot's greatest poetry and deepest misery have been caused by his unrequited passion for Katie Diss...
...pious blather-which all but claims Jesus Christ as the founder of the British Labor Party-is, of course, so farfetched and improbable as to be beyond the reach of criticism . . . What strikes me is the omission, in his article, of the name of Tito, the avowed atheist and persecutor of the Christian Church, while it includes the name of Catholic Franco. When one recalls Britain's ardent wooing of Tito, the omission may seem to be less than accidental...
Judge McLaughlin, meanwhile, is sticking to his spiritual guns. "I appreciate the right of a person to be an atheist," he says. "But if you join an organization that has principles based on the existence of a Supreme Being-from the Declaration of Independence on down to the latest pronouncements by President Eisenhower on the importance of religion-you must abide by the rules of that organization...