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...exemption for any house of worship or parsonage or place of religious teaching. Since 1956, the court has rejected three cases which argued that such exemption violates the First Amendment's establishment clause. Last week the court did it again; this time it was the case of Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who claims that church exemption hikes taxes for other property owners and amounts to taxation in support of religion...
Equally combustible is a Maryland high-court ruling that voided state grants for nonreligious facilities at three religious colleges. The court saw in the practice an unconstitutional "establishment of religion," thus casting grave doubt on similar federal support for church colleges and parochial schools. Even more combustible is Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Haire's challenge of tax exemption for churches, which the Maryland court unanimously rejected...
...time when novelty in religion is becoming the new orthodoxy, the good father is trying hard to be just plain pop. A onetime atheist, he was ordained in 1955, won quick notoriety and ecclesiastical disapproval by hearing "informal" confessions in bars and writing plays peppered with cuss words. He maintains that "you've got to begin with people where they are" and feels that a bar stool can be an effective pulpit...
...word has all of a sudden become a bestseller in Russia. Last month, Moscow's Publishing House for Political Literature brought out a new book called Biblical Stories containing Lamblike retellings of Old Testament passages, illustrations in color drawn from classical Western art, and sardonic commentaries by two atheist editors. Within a few hours, the entire first edition of 100,000 copies was completely sold...
...well as a practical interest in secret agentry, plays fair with the reader. Atomic rifle ammunition for issue rifles seems to be the secret of Apollo; the suspected leaks include a friendly neighborhood nymphomaniac, a particularly nasty psychiatrist, an alcoholic-homosexual and the chaplain, who is a devout atheist. Amis keeps the reader looking in the wrong direction until the highly sophisticated and almost credible solution. By this time, one thing is clear. Apollo is really a cover for an even more dreadful military weapon-germ warfare. As a terror deterrent to the Red Chinese, the British have developed...