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...soul, Tolstoy "leant over and said to me in a low voice: 'He's lying, all the time, the rogue, but he does it to please me.' " The state of Tolstoy's own soul puzzled Gorky greatly. "I could never believe that he was an atheist," he wrote Chekhov, "although I felt it, but now . . . I know that he is indeed an atheist and a confirmed one. Am I right?" Gorky, godless himself, was hardly right, but in many respects he saw Tolstoy plain-his "misty preaching" rising from "the unhealthy ferment of the old Russian...
Pope Pius XII last week challenged the unholy alliance between Atheist Joseph Stalin and his tame churchman, the Patriarch Alexei of Moscow, head of the Orthodox Church in Russia. The Pope charged that Russia was ruthlessly stamping out Roman Catholicism in Ruthenia, implied that Alexei was Stalin's eager catspaw...
...esthetic and amatory adventures of Samuel Dodsworth, automobile tycoon, and his wife in the cultured lands of Europe was a modern Innocents Abroad. Elmer Gantry (dedicated to Henry L. Mencken) was a rich caricature of a corrupt and ranting preacher (as he might appear to the village atheist). In The Man Who Knew Coolidge, a superb tour de force, Lewis used his remarkable talent for mimicking U.S. speech to let George F. Babbitt (this time called Lowell Schmaltz) reveal the mind, manners and morals of Babbitry in Babbitt's native tongue...
...being an atheist...
...What is an atheist...