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...Lucy Kaylin, however, gives careful consideration to just such matters in her absorbing new book, "For the Love of God: The Faith and Future of the American Nun" (Morrow; 239 pages; $24). Kaylin, the "daughter of a Jewish-born atheist father and a lapsed Lutheran mother who has since turned to Zen Buddhism," approaches the subject with a respectful, blank-canvas curiosity. Some of the nuns she interviews are cloistered, emerging only briefly from a shuttered existence. Others live in apartment complexes and work in boardrooms, indistinguishable from their secular counterparts. All seem inclined toward frank discussion of their faith...
...Lieberman also says, "I know religious people who I consider not to be moral, and I also know people who are not religious who I consider to be extremely moral." He says that an atheist in the White House would not bother him, if he thought the person was good. And he would be a fool to claim that his religion alone provided the correct set of beliefs--he must be well aware that he is a member of a small minority in America...
SENTENCED. GARY PAUL KARR, 52; to life in prison for extortion from atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, missing since 1995 along with her son and granddaughter; in Austin, Texas. Trial testimony pointed to the trio's kidnapping, murder and dismemberment, but remains have never been found...
CONVICTED. GARY KARR, 52, of conspiring to rob famed atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair of $500,000 in gold coins; in Austin, Texas. Karr was acquitted of charges of kidnapping the activist and two family members, who disappeared...
...hour, Smith's schoolmates were lining up 50 deep for a microphone with which to praise God and confess sins ranging from attempted suicide to premarital sex to simple bad manners. Lee, rising to explain why her administration legally could not participate, found herself professing her own Christianity. "One atheist [Madeline Murray O'Hair] took prayer out of the schools," Lee said, but she prayed it would return. "When she said that," notes Judy Mitchell, one of the Christian athletes' faculty advisers, "it broke the ice. Everyone said, 'I can do that, 'cause I'm not going...