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Nietzsche's superman was one of his first ideals; Henri Bergson's matter-mastering Life Force was his first philosophy, followed by bouts with Buddhism and Leninism. Though he sometimes sounded like an atheist and proclaimed that man creates God in his own image, Kazantzakis was agonized by the struggle for faith and haunted by the figure of Christ. His 1948 novel, The Greek Passion-in which a group of villagers with roles in a passion play are forced to act out their roles in real life-movingly restated the old idea that if Christ returned to earth...
...tough, bulletheaded little atheist who calls on God to witness that his hands are clean and his heart is pure has recently been giving the church in Russia a hard time. A more flexible kind of anti-Christian than Stalin, Khrushchev put new life into Russian atheism, began recruiting renegade churchmen instead of party hacks to wean Russians away from the temptations of religion...
...prominent professor of theology at Leningrad Theological Academy, Archpriest Alexander Ossipov, as well as Archpriest Paul Darmansky, Father Nicolai Spassky, and "other servants of the Church" for having "publicly blasphemed the Name of God" and having "published against their church articles or pamphlets issued by newspapers and the atheist press in the U.S.S.R." (i.e., Pravda and Izvestia). The important point : although the Russian Orthodox Church often seems totally sub servient to the government, it now feels strong enough to excommunicate priests simply for preaching Communism...
Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, who lived from 1833 to 1891, was a member of a penniless aristocratic family and, in succession, a crusading young liberal editor and atheist, an unsuccessful playwright, a successful politician and. toward the end of his life, a conservative, well-to-do author and defender of the faith. The information is necessary because. Graves believes, Alarcon wrote The Infant with the Globe as a bantering, ironic commentary on his own youth...
...statement with the cold rejoinder that it contained no "renunciation" of Francis Powers' flight over Russia, no "expression of regret," and no mention of "punishment for those who are directly responsible." To Western reminders that Russia had a notable espionage record of its own, Khrushchev, an avowed atheist, threw his hands above his head and said: "As God is my witness, my hands are clean and my soul is pure." If he had let Ike come to Russia, he went on piously, "I don't know how I would explain it to my little grandson...