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...Socialist-controlled city council of Nürnberg, Germany decided to ignore protests of religious leaders, voted to rebuild a monument (destroyed by the Nazis in 1933) to 19th century German Atheist-Philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach, one of the thinkers who influenced Karl Marx. The council also decided to restore the old inscription: "Man created God according to his image...
Other SI stories made their impact, too. At a party meeting, President Ike Eisenhower recalled the SI story about the atheist who didn't care who won the Notre Dame-S.M.U. game, and the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale began one of his Sunday sermons: "There is a new magazine, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, that has in this week's issue a story on the use of prayer...
Beyond Kindergarten. Born at Breslau, Silesia into a prosperous orthodox Jewish family, Edith was the youngest of seven children and the favorite of her stern, devout mother. After an intellectually precocious childhood, she decided to be an atheist at 13, remained one until she was 21. Later she fell under the spell of Phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, who bucked the relativistic trend in German philosophy by reaffirming the existence of objective truth and of a knowable world, i.e., phenomena. Edith's friends teased her, in rhyme, for thinking only of Husserl while other Austrian girls were dreaming of Busserl (Austrian...
...Yemen and El Salvador, Iceland and New Zealand, some 260 delegates journeyed to do homage to an organization that has power to subpoena none. They represented a total of 1.5 billion people. There, in the flesh, were black men, brown men and white, Communist and capitalist, Moslem and Confucian, atheist and Christian, vegetarian and carnivore. All told, 38 foreign ministers are gathered in San Francisco, among them the Big Four: Britain's Harold MacmilIan, France's Antoine Pinay, Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov and the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles. More than anything the assembled delegates...
...show that he was a brilliant student. He won a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Young Marlowe, as everyone agrees, translated Ovid, wrote poems and plays (Hero and Leander, Tamburlaine, Dr. Faustus, Edward II, The Jew of Malta). Records indicate that he was a homosexual and an outspoken atheist, also suggest that he was a secret agent of Queen Elizabeth's government. In 1593, a long charge of atheistic crimes was drawn up against Marlowe, but before he could be brought to trial (if such was intended) he was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl...