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...Crimson poll of the Class of 1984 shows that popular perceptions of a left-leaning and atheist Harvard student body are myths. At least in the case of religious and political attitudes, the Class of 1984 is noteworthy not for its differences with, but rather its similarities to Americans in the same age group with a similar educational Background...
...approval of a particular religion may not be a serious problem in the Rhode Island community, but there are some places in the United States where setting up a creche would be just one more symbol of a community where it is difficult to be a Jew or an atheist. Places where even the government would find something wrong with you for refusing to say a prayer at the beginning of a city council meeting...
...almost inevitable that God in a public institution will appear to take on the religion of the majority. A Jewish child would know that he is being invited to spray to a Christian God, who seems to bear no resemblance to the God of his synagogue, and an atheist would have no place in the scheme whatever. Third, school prayer does not allow full freedom of choice because it deals with children, and in an educational situation; if a school says, "Pray (or do what you feel like)," a child assumes that prayer is a part of learning. Finally, school...
...Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, De Vries makes that conflict both hilarious and explicit. Tony's father debates a local dermatologist, who happens to be the town's most vocal atheist, on the subject of Christian belief. Their spirited exchange, waged before an enthralled and partisan audience of locals, is declared a draw. But the combatants have persuaded each other to switch positions. The minister resigns his post and faith, moves east and becomes a suave, voice-over pitchman in dog food TV commercials; the doctor takes up tub-thumping evangelical crusading. Late in the novel, a rematch is arranged...
...alive by retreating to separate houses. Woodie shuttled between them until he was forced to choose between parents. He opted to live with his father, a decision that merely added to his misery and guilt. A year after the divorce, in 1934, Ruth was dead. Broun Sr., a lifelong atheist, converted to Roman Catholicism shortly before his death at 51. He left behind a bewildered preppie who, for years afterward, wanted only "to set up a house where my parents could go on living, a place with three floors and a basement, one floor for each...