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...Shower Thy Blessings (the first NBC show of an eight-week summer series of Plays by Ear, Mon. 8 p.m., E.D.T.), Chevigny succeeded. It was a neat little comedy about what happened when a backwoods preacher prayed for rain. A cloudburst drowns the village atheist's turkeys. The atheist sues the preacher for damages. The wire services make the trial a national sensation...
...great legal eagles are flown in and the press comes to roost. The trial drags on as the lawyers find in a few inches of local precipitation the world issue of Religion v. Science. Crops go unsown, the town goes almost broke before the preacher gets the atheist to admit, on penalty of being shown "negligent," that he himself prayed for the rain to stop. Clearly then, says the preacher, it was prayer against prayer, and the case has already been judged in the Highest Court...
Today Author Read, like many of his more thoughtful contemporaries, is a strange but balanced composite-man-an admirer of both Chinese philosophy and surrealism, an atheist with a yen for mystical writing, an advanced thinker who sees his old-fashioned childhood as "an age of unearthly bliss," a romantic "anarchist" who insists that "we must not assume that art and machinery are mutually exclusive, but experiment until we discover a machine art." As art critic and esthetic philosopher, Read is erudite and discerning; as a writer, he is precise and dry, so that his prose shows at its best...
Although it was a little magazine in 1872, it got a big reception. In pulpit and press, the newborn Popular Science Monthly was denounced as the devilish work of atheists and evolutionists. But blind Editor Edward Livingston Youmans, no atheist but a devout missionary from the world of science to the world of laymen, took the abuse in stride. "The work of creating science," he wrote in Vol. I, No. 1, "has been organized for centuries. . . . The work of diffusing science ... is clearly the next great task of civilization...
Nowadays, Atheist Togliatti firmly clutches the palm branch. Recently, in the Italian Assembly, one of his Christian Democrat opponents ended a bombastic speech with an appeal to the Blessed Virgin; the next speaker windily invoked the Holy Ghost. Communist Togliatti did not reply with dialectical materialism; instead, his steady voice crackled out the First Commandment-"lo sono il Signore Dio tuo. . . ." His fellow legislators cheered...