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...could have advised them to go to church and mouth the prayers along with everyone else, but men like Paine, Ben Franklin and John Adams were deists, holding that God had created the universe and then departed from the scene. Jefferson won the presidency despite being baited as an atheist, and Ethan Allen authored a scathing attack on Christianity, titled Reason, the Only Oracle...
...image is emerging. In Illinois, California and Florida, children are fighting exclusion from the Boy Scouts based on their being atheist, agnostic or female. An assistant scoutmaster in California is battling an expulsion imposed because he is gay. And Boy Scout officials are rewriting popular mythology, if not history, to assert that the scouts are free to discriminate because they were always a private club rather than a public resource...
...that matter (as an atheist or agnostic would have it), do such terms heedlessly empower the idea of God? God, after all, does not enjoy universal diplomatic recognition...
...Come From, Where Are You Bound?," is to be realized on the wall of a Washington office building. A Phoenix man thinks his father's handmade place-mat menus would be appropriate. Handicrafters from Ocala, Fla., urge a macrame snood over the entire building, and a Los Angeles atheist knows exactly what he doesn't want: depictions of Pilgrims on their knees, or any ethnically mixed group gazing heavenward. Our Founding Fathers were, he argues, "Europe's overflow of malcontents . . . drifters who were miserable elsewhere." White People reveals a once well-rooted folk searching for new and better places...
Excerpts from a tract by a staunch atheist? On the contrary, those are assertions offered by a bishop of America's Episcopal Church, John Spong of Newark, in his new book, Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism (Harper San Francisco, $16.95). Spong's unorthodoxy is of long standing, but it has now reached epic proportions. His previous book, Living in Sin?, assailed Christian dos and don'ts on sex and asserted that nonmarital sex can be holy under some circumstances. After the work appeared in 1988, Spong ordained a sexually active gay priest, inspiring the Episcopal House of Bishops to "disassociate...