Word: atheistical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judges was Benjamin Shalit, 33, a psychologist and a lieutenant commander in Israel's navy; the respondent was the Minister of the Interior. Israeli law requires all parents to register their newborn children by religion and nationality. Though a sabra (native-born Israeli), Shalit is a professed atheist, and after the birth of his children-Oren, now four, and Galia, 20 months -he tried to register them as Jews by nationality but nonbelievers by religion...
Died. Joseph Lewis, 79, indefatigable atheist, whose quixotic battles with organized religion spanned nearly half a century; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Dedicating his life to "throwing off the dead hand of religious superstition," Lewis in more than 15 books inveighed against religious holidays, the insertion of "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, and even the issuance of a special stamp at Christmastime...
...that his The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) was "directed against the so-called existentialist philosophers." He was criticized for contributing to the literature of despair, but his novels (The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall) as well as his essays and plays sought to surmount despair. He was called an atheist, but Camus was a deeply religious man without...
...maternal grandparents. When Painter remarried, two years later, he sought to get Mark back. To his surprise, the grandparents refused. To his shock the Iowa Supreme Court agreed that Mark should not live with his father. Writer-Photographer Painter, said the court, is "either an agnostic or an atheist and has no concern for formal religious training." Life with him "would be unstable, unconventional, arty, bohemian." The boy should remain in the custody of his more "conventional" grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Bannister, both in their sixties...
While a church-in the sense of a community-may be necessary for a viable Christian life, institutional or denominational churches are not. Today it would be hard to find an atheist whose criticism of religion is any more vociferous than the attack on the irrelevance, stagnation and non utility of organized hristendom offered by its adherents. "Christianity is like a trip," muses Episcopal Bishop Edward Crowther, a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Santa Barbara, Calif. "The church is like a travel agent with a lot of pictures in her office describing what...