Word: atheistical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Madalyn Murray, 46, Baltimore's professional atheist; and Richard Franklin O'Hair, 52, expatriate artist living in Mexico; both for the second time; in Austin, Texas...
...experience." Although the decision is not retroactive, in Baltimore alone the wheels of justice were braked for at least 1,476 defendants. Every grand jury in the state faced dismissal; out went every indictment less than 30 days old (including the famous Baltimore assault charge against Atheist Madalyn Murray). Every trial juror now serving may go home, every defendant may get a new trial with new jurors, and every jury conviction open to appeal may be voided...
...Abbey. On the other side, Franziskus Cardinal König of Vienna, head of a new Vatican secretariat for dealing with nonbelievers, argued that the attitude of the church toward all men of good will-including atheists-should be one of dialogue, not damnation. And Mexican Bishop Sergio Méndez Arceo of Cuernavaca suggested that the church should pay tribute to the views of a renowned atheist whom it has long deplored: Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Bishop Méndez argued that Freud's teachings constitute "a useful method of purification" and should be taken into account...
...this time he had a point. There was no question that Luci had been validly baptized at St. David's Episcopal Church in Austin when she was five months old. Moreover, the church has always declared that any baptism following the right form, even if performed by an atheist, is good once...
These vague faiths were good enough for the court, which unanimously agreed that all three cases passed the act's test of Supreme-Being belief (the court specifically avoided the question of whether an atheist could qualify as a conscientious objector). Associate Justice Tom Clark argued for the court that Congress did not intend the act to apply only to orthodox members of organized churches. He cited Protestant Theologian Tillich, "whose views the Government concedes would come within the statute." Tillich firmly rejects the God of traditional theism in favor of a "God above God" who is the "ground...