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Madalyn Murray O'Hair became the nation's best-known atheist in 1963 when, partly as a result of her suit, the U.S. Supreme Court forbade mandatory prayers in public schools. A fellow plaintiff in protesting Bible reading and/or recitation of the Lord's Prayer in Baltimore schools was her teen-age son William J. Murray III. He went on to become a publisher, but later joined his mother in Austin, Texas. In 1975 he reorganized the headquarters of her American Atheists and revived its monthly magazine. In 1977 he broke with his mother and tried...
...think of God, today?" she's not Billy Graham screaming from the pulpit, but a clear-eyed Moonie confronting you in Times Square. As Sarah's children die one by one, Gutman's horror never becomes repetitive but intensifies with every torturous shock, making her transformation to a bitter atheist wholly believable and her cry to J.B., "Curse God and die!" all the more painful...
Though a professed atheist, Shaw was possessed by an evangelical passion. He was convinced that if spiritual power could be harnessed to material power, man would be transformed into a higher order of being. That is at the core of Major Barbara, which is being given a top-notch revival at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater. The motto of the Salvation Army is "Blood and Fire." Shaw paradoxically translates this into "Money and Gunpowder...
...million people are devout Muslims. The Soviet invaders are widely resented, even despised, as godless interlopers, and consequently so is their principal Afghan standin, Karmal. The President probably has the support of no more than 10% of the population. "The people question his legitimacy and view him as an atheist who has sold himself completely to the Soviet Union," said a senior Western diplomat in Kabul. "Karmal's No. 1 problem is to get some political support from the people, by whatever means...