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Bovio Fanelli is known in his village of Riccia, Italy, as a Communist and militant atheist. When he appeared in church to be godfather at a baptism, the priest, Don Alfonso Manocchio, declared Fanelli unacceptable and refused to baptize the baby. Then and there Communist Fanelli scooped up a pitcher of holy water and poured it on the baby's head, saying: "I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost...
...bring a word for intellectuals to play with: existentialism. At first it appeared to be nothing but a new French fad-redolent of sex, sidewalk cafes, tight blue jeans and Communism. But on examination it seems that all kinds of respectable thinkers are existentialists, and that France's Atheist Jean-Paul Sartre represents merely a quasi-Communist splinter group in a movement that grew out of the thoughts of the great 19th century Danish religious thinker, Sören Kierkegaard. What is a modern-day existentialist? One who asks the great questions-"Who am I?" "Why am I here...
...strip-poker method of characterization rarely gets under the man's skin; it merely shows he had one. "Say any damn thing you please," Mencken once told Angoff, "only never say I was a Christian." Angoff has kept the promise by making him a kind of village atheist. In the process, he cuts Mencken down to Mencken-and that's not Voltaire...
...will you stoop so low as to air the garments of an old rascal-an atheist-such as Sigmund Freud? Your story was superbly done, but have you ever paused to consider that ". . . the rowdyism, riot and revolt of the youth" can be laid at the doorstep of Freud & Co. You could make another bundle and lay it at the front stoop of the National Education Association-they picked up the ball and recast it as progressive (permissive) education...
...measure of psychiatry's maturity as well as its penetration that religion, slowly and within stoutly defined limits, has come to accept and even to cooperate with it. Sigmund Freud, an atheist, found no place in his vision of the riddle of man for the "mass obsessional neurosis" called religion, except for its occasional help as an opiate to stifle a neurosis. For all his own scruples, he deplored society's religion-based concept of morality, saw the root of modern man's problems in the concept...