Word: atheistical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roach Straton, Manhattan Baptist. He included in this propaganda birth control literature and nude pictures. Dr. Straton asked Atheist Smith to stop mailing him such things. When Mr. Smith failed to do so, Dr. Straton haled him into court. Once before the judges, Atheist Smith sought to make it appear that he had been trying to interest Preacher Straton in atheism, because he "wanted to convert the leader of the opposition." The nude pictures were intended to appeal to "his aesthetic side if he had any." Atheist Smith pointed out that it would be quite natural for a clergyman...
Like deism, atheism is an entirely logical postulate. Usually, however, an atheist's faith being a negative one, he is less likely, when its novelty has worn off, than a propagandist for God, to preach it on highway and byway. He has not the exclusively Christian satisfaction of saving a soul. When he takes the offensive, he is in the position of a salesman selling precisely nothing at all. Nonetheless, atheists perhaps feel that their offspring are contaminated by biblical training in public schools, that in other respects they are at a disadvantage in the U. S. community...
...umbrella, he attempts to wrest it from the hands of the brandisher, and break it against future attacks. And in his failure to do so, he betrays the weakness of his body. Such was the case of Dr. Straton who recently lost in court his case against a militant atheist whose propaganda was hardly worthy of such attention...
Professor Givler held that criticism of religion was simply a characteristic of this generation to investigate and to get at the root of all things. "Every atheist should be made a saint by the church for the healthy criticism he has given it", he said. Closing his arguments with an ode to Harvard, he pointed out that the University is "agnostic", yet a "saint" and a "sage...
...flanks of a wretched skinny child), babbits were terrified. They said, one to another: "Well, I must say, I think it's blasphemous. Jesus looks positively Semitic! And when you remember the way Raphael painted the mother, it seems really shameful . . . the man must be an atheist!" Esthetes, on the other hand, became jubilant. "What strength," they murmured, "what superb nuance...