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...commission will set up a new Institute of Scientific Atheism, offer courses in the subject at Russian universities starting this fall. Atheism will be taught more intensively at party training cen ters and in special courses for teachers, doctors and journalists. Already start ed are competitions for the best atheist plays, films, paintings and photographs (one entry shows believers gloating over a collection plate). To counter act the emotional appeal of church feasts, the party will give greater emphasis to Russia's secular festivals -such as Cattle Breeder Day and Corn Grower Day, now celebrated joyously throughout the Ukraine...
...atheism is to succeed, warned Commission Chairman Leonid Ilyichev, non-believers must embark on a person-to-person campaign - "more heart-to-heart talks, frank explanations and patient conversations." He suggested the formation of Young Atheist clubs, whose members could enter into anti-religious dialogues with believers, such as warning pregnant women about the physical dangers involved in baptism and circumcision...
This fear is so complete, he said, that it would be "futile" to seek Southern white support for the civil rights movement. He is, to Americus whites, "a New York atheist Communist...
...When Atheist Madalyn Murray, 43, blew into Stockton, Kans., there was no sign of the Welcome Wagon. Instead, she ran into smothering, if oblique, rejection as it became clear that there was nothing but trouble on her mind. The militant matron, whose suit against required school-prayer reading in Baltimore was upheld by the Supreme Court, had arrived to set up an atheist center. She also planned to enroll her son Garth, 8, in a nearby public school in order to sue for the removal of the Roman Catholic nuns who work there as teachers. The first night in town...
...specifies situations in which Christians must resist totalitarianism. They fail their responsibility, the Weissensee declaration points out, if they "remain silent about the sins of our times." The churches are equally unfaithful to their calling if they submit "to the absolute claim of an ideology" or agree to an atheist morality "in which man without God is made the goal of education and culture." The declaration states that the churches must be willing to share in the suffering of those "who have been deprived of their rights," and that "we act in disobedience if we remain silent when power...