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...attack on the U.S. tradition of granting tax exemption to church-owned property, Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair filed a widely watched suit in Maryland that no constitutional scholar can lightly dismiss. Such exemption, she argued, hikes taxes for other property owners and violates the First Amendment because it amounts to taxation in support of religion...
...even the score of past wrongs, to wrench justice from fate. This mentality is impervious to the tragic sense, the view of existence best expressed by Ortega y Gasset when he said: "The condition of man is essential uncertainty. Man feels himself lost, shipwrecked." Nor can Sartre, as an atheist, accept the dispensation of Christian grace, which redeems the sinner without denying the sin. In Sartre's world, the problem of evil is as shallow as Narcissus' pool. The self accuses, judges, justifies and condemns the self...
...selling it; we're studying it," says Chairman John Hutchison of the Claremont College's religion department. Universities deliberately avoid hiring propagandizers for a faith. "It's completely irrelevant to us whether a man is a good Christian or a good Protestant or a good atheist just so long as he is a good and competent scholar," says Columbia's Joseph Blau. Western Michigan has had a Jesuit priest teaching Hinduism and Buddhism, while at Wisconsin a course on the Reformation is taught by a Jew, another on the philosophy of religion by an avowed agnostic...
...outdated about the traditional theological language of the church, or about belief in the Bible as the inspired word of God. "Once a person begins to doubt the accuracy of the Bible," says Kantzer, "he is on his way toward becoming a liberal and probably an agnostic or atheist...
...public official. Maryland's constitution does the same-but it also orders officials to declare "belief in the existence of God." In 1961, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld Maryland Notary Public Roy R. Torcaso, who refused to sign such a declaration because he was an atheist. The religious requirement, said the court, "unconstitutionally invades freedom of belief and religion...