Word: atheistical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Singer Pat Boone made it. So did Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair. But the first edition of Who's Who in Religion published by Marquis Who's Who, Inc., seemed most notable for the names that did not appear in its list of 16,000 people who "demonstrated merit in some form of religious activity." Among those not present: Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen; Unification Church Founder the Rev. Sun Myung Moon; Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee; and Manhattan Clergyman Norman Vincent Peale, whose "positive thinking" books have sold more than 5 million...
Pasolini's attitude toward religion, for example, brought the problem modern Italians confront into a sharper focus. Pasolini was an atheist, and had no sympathy for the political machinations of the Church. But his racial consciousness was Roman Catholic; he took his symbols and modes of thought from Christian myth. In his prose he used Biblical forms such as the parable, and frequently quoted Christ. He preserved an Old Testament belief that the body was foul and that women were evil. (In his Hell, the demons are women.) Pasolini wanted to be a Christ-figure, to have everyone hate...
...said there was "absolutely no racism" in his book. "Hunting for a racist in the Harvard faculty is like looking for an atheist in a Benedictine monastery," Wilson said...
...atheist might say that "someone" was Brown. Kubacki was aided immeasurably by his play action passes which totally confused the Bruin defense. In three straight plays, Brown's linebackers, showing unusual agility, ran into each other...
...other ways. Though he leads the largest proletarian party in the West, his fragile hands have rarely been callused by any implement rougher than a sailboat's tiller. The descendant of an aristocratic, landowning Sardinian family, he is married to a practicing Roman Catholic but is an atheist himself...