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...inside her head. She had been convicted of murdering her husband, because he, lying on his deathbed, had signed a document asserting that she (his Christian wife) had slain him. What possibility was there then that she could escape the law's severest penalty? Her husband was an atheist, remembered Mrs. Marshall; false-swearing by an atheist, even on a deathbed, promises no future punishment. An atheist is therefore considered more likely to be a liar than a man who believes in God. In two states, Arkansas and Maryland, there are provisions by which an atheist's testimony...
...Atheists are hampered in their activities by the fact that few public personages dare testify to disbelief in God. Sensation seekers crowd their ranks and an atheist fanatic is equalled in insane ferocity only by an inflamed revivalist. Yet leading atheists claim many famous figures as their allies. Such figures are: Sinclair Lewis, Clement Wood, Clarence Darrow, Freeman Hopwood, Theodore Dreiser, John Broadus Watson (behaviorism), E. Haldeman-Julius, A. G. Keller...
Roach Straton, Manhattan Baptist. He included in this propaganda birth control literature and nude pictures. Dr. Straton asked Atheist Smith to stop mailing him such things. When Mr. Smith failed to do so, Dr. Straton haled him into court. Once before the judges, Atheist Smith sought to make it appear that he had been trying to interest Preacher Straton in atheism, because he "wanted to convert the leader of the opposition." The nude pictures were intended to appeal to "his aesthetic side if he had any." Atheist Smith pointed out that it would be quite natural for a clergyman...
Like deism, atheism is an entirely logical postulate. Usually, however, an atheist's faith being a negative one, he is less likely, when its novelty has worn off, than a propagandist for God, to preach it on highway and byway. He has not the exclusively Christian satisfaction of saving a soul. When he takes the offensive, he is in the position of a salesman selling precisely nothing at all. Nonetheless, atheists perhaps feel that their offspring are contaminated by biblical training in public schools, that in other respects they are at a disadvantage in the U. S. community...
...umbrella, he attempts to wrest it from the hands of the brandisher, and break it against future attacks. And in his failure to do so, he betrays the weakness of his body. Such was the case of Dr. Straton who recently lost in court his case against a militant atheist whose propaganda was hardly worthy of such attention...