Word: atheistical
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...state has defended its use of the textbooks arguing that the books are non-religious, but the fundamentalist parents who filed suit have said that the books are atheistic and entangled in religious issues. The parents argue that the textbooks should teach from all outlooks, atheist and religious, or none...
...Indiana Jones. Reunited with Director Peter Weir (Witness), Ford is in tiny Belize on the Caribbean to star in The Mosquito Coast, based on the Paul Theroux novel. His character, Allie Fox, moves to the wilds of Central America to start his own civilization. As foil to the atheist protagonist, Butterfly McQueen, 75, plays a native who attributes everything to God. Fox "is the kind of American who feels his opportunities at home limited by the kind of man he is," says Ford. In short, he won't keep up with Indy or the other Joneses...
...Dobrynin chomped Tom's Mom's chocolate-chunk cookies at Reagan's dinner table, then jetted off to Moscow to warn his superiors about the gunslinger. At congressional prayer breakfasts, where devout Americans roared and heaved, he was the pious atheist. He negotiated the new Soviet embassy on Washington's highest and best land, while the new American embassy in Moscow ended up in a sump...
Although Fowles is an atheist, the "tender sympathy" for the Shakers that underlies A Maggot is not as unlikely as it seems, for the author is drawn to all forms of dissent, whatever the orthodoxy. Although a novelist of established eminence, he chooses to be "unconnected" to conventional literary life: "I don't know other writers or read any literary magazines. I hate reviewing. I don't lecture or give readings. The novel is a print medium, meant to come through the eyes, not the ears. All that readings show you is whether the novelist is a good actor...
...Soviet restrictions, he said, "In some societies you cannot go out and preach the Gospel. What do you do?" His answer: "We must wear the fruit of the Spirit, so that people, when they see how we live, will be drawn to the Spirit within us." Christianity has survived atheist taunts, he said, "because the Gospel has its own power to change human lives." But when six youths bravely held aloft crude banners protesting the jailing of Soviet Christians, Graham made no public acknowledgment...