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...Children. The first Soviet constitution guaranteed freedom of religion. Though the government was officially atheist, the Baptists prospered more after the separation of church and state than they had under the Orthodox regimes of the czars. In 1929, however, Stalin cracked down with a stern, anti-religion law, part of which forbade religious education for anyone under...
...harmonica-playing sea captain, Carmines was born 35 years ago in Hampton, Va. Until age 17, he I planned to become a concert pianist, Then he took stock of his keyboard talents and decided on the ministry instead. "But in college at Swarthmore," he says, "I became an atheist. Later on I realized that you don't have to be a fanatic to believe in God, so I grew out of that." After graduating from Union Theological Seminary, he went to Judson Memorial and was assigned to form a church theatrical group. Carmines accepted on two conditions: no censorship...
...Somehow, I have a feeling all things have not deteriorated. Some unexpected people have awakened to the voices of their children, who have turned out to be-surprise!-the holders of moral strength. Innocence is no longer suspect. Sally Hayes called me a sacrilegious atheist because I thought Jesus would have puked at the Radio City Music Hall Christmas stage show. I said, "The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy that plays the kettle drums in the orchestra." Well, maybe that humanizing is behind some of the Jesus Revolution. Anyway, he would have liked...
...animal, for sanitary reasons, be shackled and hoisted off the ground before the death stroke. Thus under kosher procedure the conscious animal may have a few moments of pain and terror before the slaughter. Last week Manhattan Lawyer Henry Mark Holzer, a born Jew who describes himself as an atheist, filed a federal suit charging that the exemption for kosher slaughter is not only inhumane but unconstitutional, on the grounds that it violates the principle of separation of church and state. Jews doubt that Holzer's suit will succeed. Meantime, a new slaughtering pen, patented earlier by the A.S.P.C.A...
PHOTOGRAPHER Erich Lessing calls himself an atheist-"or at best, an agnostic"-but that description would hardly seem credible to those who buy his books. Last Christmas, Lessing's The Bible: History and Culture of a People, told the story of the Old Testament in a lavish pictorial presentation of historical sites, art and artifacts. This year comes the sequel: Jesus: History and Culture of the New Testament (Herder & Herder; $33). As with the previous volume, the narrative is limited to appropriate texts from Scripture and a handful of background essays by biblical scholars-notably a thoughtful discussion...