Word: atheistical
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...sleep in the park, sing in the streets, do anything ... to enable me to take my doctor's degree." Proud of "my critical faculties," adept in finding "objections to the immortality of the individual soul," Cronin was nonetheless "too much of a coward" to be an avowed atheist, too much of a fighter to settle into the rut of tame agnosticism. So he did his best to keep faith and skepticism in separate compartments...
...especially emphasizes the "regardless of race or creed" doctrine, taught in "that atheist post-hole," when referring to Harvard. "That's a blasphemy, that's what it is," he cries...
...guts" by the undergraduates; that Mr. Greene teaches "ethics, not religion," and that "Mr. Schroeder does not seek to persuade his students to believe in Christ, largely because he has not... been completely able to persuade himself." Buckley continues that "Mr. Goodenough has claimed to be "80 percent atheist and 20 percent agnostic." And so the condemnation continued, dealing with all college departments...
...reason: philosophers no longer have a common ground for argument. "Fifty years ago, your characteristic atheist...was as clear as you were about what it was he was denying when he said there was no God and what you were asserting when you said there was. Now...the bite of argument is gone: and the atheist or skeptic will say, 'I don't know what you are talking about. You are asking questions that need not be asked...
...doubt if we can ever formally disprove an atheist, still less a consistent sceptical interpretation and outlook; in the end we find ourselves acting like...two people who disagreed about a painting, where the one said, 'That's beautiful,' and the other said, 'I don't see it.'...We think him blind, whereas he thinks us credulous... and what we call doing justice to the facts he calls the grip on us of settled routines or inertia...