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...churchman-a propagandist stunt which is not peculiar to the dictator nations but has been used by U. S. bigots (with "ex-monks," "escaped nuns," etc.)-would benefit not only Stalin but the discredited Russian Godless. So last week Metropolitan Nikolas' renunciation of "religious lies" appeared in the atheist journal, Bezbozhnik. He declared that he had begun to feel that his church duties were burdensome, and finally discontinued them entirely. "For me," wrote the Metropolitan, "the face of the priesthood has been unmasked." Thereupon Nikolas proceeded to particularize, naming prelates by name and accusing them of crimes which, point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mitre Off Platonoff | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...picked and chose over Herndon's materials as he saw fit; the publishers revised the manuscript, and 70-year-old Herndon got only $300 for his share of the work and for his collection of Lincoln documents that afterwards sold for more than $300,000. Slandered as an atheist, a drunkard, a scandalmonger, a drug addict, Herndon died in 1891, his great monument to his hero disfigured, unpopular, neglected to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragic Life | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Thousands of banners on Soviet public buildings have proclaimed that Lenin said "Religion is the opium of the people." Every enrolled member of the Communist Party is a professing atheist. The Soviet League of Militant Godless has kept clawing away at the Russian Church for twelve long years. Hence outside the Soviet Union, and even inside, there has been a tendency to forget that Communism has not wiped out the Church, that many of its priests have adapted themselves to Soviet conditions with such dexterity that they now preach Christ was the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Metropolitan Orgies? | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...North and South, publishers get out books on "evolution" but do not use that word, speak of "development." The Texas textbook committee once refused to approve a biography of Thomas A. Edison lest they be attacked by a Fundamentalist Baptist, Rev. J. Frank Norris, who hated and feared that atheist inventor. In Louisiana an Elson Reader was banned because of this Mother Goose couplet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Textbooks | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

Lastly, Butler was never an atheist. He never ceased to regard himself as a 'Broad Churchman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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