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...their lapses too. What distinguishes the retreat now is its confusion, and one of the two "avenues" it takes. The first, the retreat into the "vacuum" of irreligion, has always been a passing phase. The second is far more dangerous. It occurred when disciples of the "scientific outlook" or "atheist humanism," who began their movements as a protest against Christianity, fell prey to substitute "religions" of their own devising. "[This] retreat from Christianity into religion . . . may fill that [spiritual] vacuum . . . giving life to the paganisms and idolatries . . . from which the gospel once delivered...
...apple plant in Washington's Yakima Valley. A onetime biology professor, he is also a philosopher who corresponded for years with Santayana, and the author of half a dozen books ranging from A Million Years of Human Progress to What Great Men Think of Religion (he is an atheist). But among businessmen of Yakima, Cardiff is best known for his relentless war with inspectors of the federal Food & Drug Administration. In a series of battles, boasts Cardiff, "I've licked 'em every time...
...Existentialist himself, presents it as a universal truth, a faith to die for; and so, though The Tartar Steppe suffers from being a copy of The Castle, it gains from the gravity and human sympathy with which it is written. Like many another modern novel, it reads like an atheist's funeral march-in which the composer (to say nothing of the corpse) is numbly resigned to the belief that man begins in dreams and ends in dust...
Your June 9 excerpts from reviews of Whittaker Chambers' Witness largely confirm his thesis that the liberalism of our intellectuals is as atheist as Marxism...
...burst of reader response tore a few holes in the professor's ivy. Publicly and in a flood of angry letters, he was denounced as an atheist or worse. Walter Stace, an Englishman, was shocked. He had never fancied himself an out & out enemy of religion. As a young man, he had studied briefly for the ministry while at Dublin's Trinity College. In 20 years as a British colonial officer in Ceylon, he had formed a lively admiration for Buddhism and the Hindu religions...