Word: atheistical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Federal and state laws have traditionally exempted church property from taxation. But now that the value of church possessions has grown to some $80 billion, professional secularists such as Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair have raised far-reaching court suits challenging these exemptions, and financially hard-pressed local governments have begun to nibble away at the limits of the churches' immunity. As a result, U.S. churches are today in the midst of an agonizing reappraisal of their traditional privileges...
...Beauvoir, who died of cancer, saying, "I'm too tired to pray: God is kind." It is a painful book to read, not least because the reader is unsure to the end whether natural piety toward the author's mother will prevail against her severe atheist principles. Mother was 77, "of an age to die," when she was attacked by severe abdominal pain, but nothing, it seems, had prepared Simone for the emotions that overwhelmed...
...TIME'S story is biased, pro-atheist and proCommunist, shocking and entirely unAmerican...
...religion of the future" predicted by Religious Atheist Marie Guyau in 1886 is coming into existence. In 1957 Martin Buber told a Unitarian minister: "The old distinctions between religion and non-religion are dead. Religion has nothing to do with church attendance as such nor with doctrinal beliefs as such. These old distinctions are utterly meaningless in the present situation. Those who call themselves religious and those who call themselves nonreligious must join hands to find the first steps out of our human situation. In his readiness to do this, the agnostic or even the atheist may be more religious...
...cries one anguished teenager, "but I hate the church." Theologian Gilkey says that "belief is the area in the modern Protestant church where one finds blankness, silence, people not knowing what to say or merely repeating what their preachers say." Part of the Christian mood today, suggests Christian Atheist William Hamilton, is that faith has become not a possession but a hope...