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Holidays could be a dreary time aboard Mir, especially for those from the officially atheist U.S.S.R., which had eliminated many of them anyway. On New Year's Eve, crews were permitted to set up a small, nonsectarian tree, which did little to improve the Das Boot ambience. To lift their mood further, they would break out the ship's vacuum cleaner and take turns riding it around the tree--the poor man's jet pack...
REMAINS FOUND; believed to be those of atheist MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR, her son and her adopted granddaughter; on a ranch in Camp Wood, Texas. Missing since 1995, the O'Hairs are believed to have been kidnapped by a former employee, who led police to the site...
...very accepting atheist and I find the cloud of religion surrounding the American government to be discomforting at best, usually bordering on the offensive. And yet our country's statesmen continue to allow the practice of religion in state settings, presumably in an attempt to increase their favorability. We all know that these representatives don't practice the religious morals preached behind closed doors, the recent sexual tangents of Bill Clinton and Jesse Jackson being the latest examples. Yet, Christian religion continues to permeate the American government. Yes, religion is alive and well in America, but it has no place...
...more comfortable talking about his atheism in interviews than he was exploring the mysteries of his films. He was so adamant about his position that he boasted of a spiteful prank he hoped to pull on his "atheist, communist" friends. When he knew he was about die, he stated "I will call a priest, confess loudly, accuse myself of everything, say I believe in God and tell them to take my death as an example. 'You've shared my sinister beliefs,' [I'll tell them,] 'look at how I die.' And then I'll die and go straight to hell...
Lucy Kaylin, however, gives careful consideration to just such matters in her absorbing new book, For the Love of God: The Faith and Future of the American Nun (Morrow; 239 pages; $24). Kaylin, the "daughter of a Jewish-born atheist father and a lapsed Lutheran mother who has since turned to Zen Buddhism," approaches the subject with a respectful, blank-canvas curiosity. Some of the nuns she interviews are cloistered, emerging only briefly from a shuttered existence. Others live in apartment complexes and work in boardrooms, indistinguishable from their secular counterparts. All seem inclined toward frank discussion of their faith...