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Conversion to Catholicism came through odd circumstances. She lived with an atheist whose "ardent love of creation brought me to the Creator of all things." But when she bore the man's daughter, she sought baptism: "I was not going to have her floundering through many years as I had done, doubting, un disciplined and amoral. For myself I prayed for the gift of faith." It came. In 1927 she left the father of her child and was baptized in the Catholic Church...
...maintained through beatings, buggery and other less colorful forms of brutality. In Scum, alas, no redeemer appears to offer even brief hope of change. The only appealing character is an individualist named Archer (Mick Ford), whose rebelliousness is of a highly personal sort. He is a vegetarian and an atheist whose insistence on special treatment throws sand into the system, but not the monkey wrench that would bring it to a halt. There is also a hard case named Carlin (Ray Winstone), whose rise from victim to "Daddy" (the inmate who rules over his section) provides the plot with such...
Biographer Graves (Lawrence of Arabia and His World) pierces that mask to show a man Max might have admired: a homosexual wrestling with his "curse," an atheist, gourmet, lover of nonsense verse and devoted companion to the few people he could tolerate...
When the new edition hit the bookstores late last year, 100,000 copies were snapped up in a matter of days. The smash seller? A revised and expanded version of the Atheist's Pocket Dictionary, first issued in 1973 and put out by a state-run political publishing house called Politizdat. The 280-page paperback, though "designed for propagandists, lecturers and organizers of atheistic work," has some of the appeal of forbidden fruit; few books are ever published in the U.S.S.R. that deal with religion, even in a backhanded...
Definitions in the Atheist's Dictionary are written to conform with the basic Marxist line that religion is either 1) pure superstition or 2) "the opium of the people." God? An idea "used to justify and protect the social order of exploiters." Heaven? It distracts people from "the real tasks of the Communist rearrangement of life on earth." Conversely, hell dampens "the rage of the working people against their oppressors by planting a hope that the latter will be punished after death." Easter fosters "ideas of a class peace and forgiveness." Christ's love-thy-neighbor teaching...