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...will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America . . . and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion ..." But here Corporal Plywacki boggled. The next words were "So help me God." Wladyslaw Plywacki explained that he was an atheist, therefore could not in honesty use those words...
Inevitably, little Norbert turned out to be something of an infantile monster. Once, when a Latin tutor annoyed him, he turned the garden hose on the fellow. Another time, when his parents sent him to a Unitarian Sunday school to give him some contact with other children, little Atheist Norbert got into debates with the minister on the existence...
Another McCarthy quarry last week was Roger Lyons, the Voice of America's director of religious programming. Another Voice employee testified that he had heard Lyons was an "atheist." Advised of this hearsay testimony, Lyons promptly hustled down to Washington from his office in New York, testified that very afternoon. Sample dialogue...
McCarthy: How would you describe yourself? Would you describe yourself as an atheist, agnostic, a Christian or Jewish...
Lyons: I am not an atheist or an agnostic. I believe...