Word: atheistical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world." But for others, the God issue?including whether or not he is dead?has been put aside as irrelevant. "Personally, I've never been confronted with the question of God," says one such politely indifferent atheist, Dr. Claude Lévi-Strauss, professor of social anthropology at the Collège de France. "I find it's perfectly possible to spend my life knowing that we will never explain the universe." Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray points to another variety of unbelief: the atheism of distraction, people...
...letter from prison, De Sade wrote: "Imaginative about morality in a way more disorderly than the world has ever known, atheist to the point of fanaticism, in fact, that is what I am like, and once again, kill me or take me as I am, for I shall not change." Rejection of God seems to have exhausted his powers of skepticism. In his lonely circular cell he became a devout numerologist, and solemnly counted the words or lines in letters he received as a basis for abstruse and totally nutty calculations that would provide, he believed, the exact date...
...atheist, not an agnostic, humanist, or anything else," Mrs. Murray said, "But no one will deny that those who are exempted from paying taxes on church-held properties are causing my taxes to rise. Such tax exemptions constitute direct state aid to and are a violation of the first ammendment...
...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...
...that the gentle, ailing, "highly respected" Mr. Bannister "has served on the school board and regularly teaches a Sunday-school class at the Gilbert Congregational Church." By contrast, Justice Stuart pointed to Painter's seven jobs in ten years, asserted that he is "either an agnostic or an atheist and has no concern for formal religious training. He has read a lot of Zen Buddhism." Though Marylyn is a Roman Catholic, the couple planned to send Mark to a Congregational church "on an irregular schedule." Painter, added Stuart, is "a political liberal...