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Malik later set off another brisk diplomatic exchange when he noted that the Israelis felt "nearer than any other people to God." He added: "I am an atheist but I do not believe God would be so partial." Rapping the table with his pipe, the Israeli Ambassador, Yosef Tekoah, shouted: "I do not believe that the Security Council should be a forum for the kind of slander and abuses of any people's faith we heard just now from Ambassador Malik!" Tekoah then proceeded to bring up the Soviet Union's prewar pact with Nazi Germany, which drew...
...imagery almost superfluous. Its depiction of religiosity is ambiguous, yet profound, and so Simon carefully explores possible conclusions to be drawn from the ending--where the pastor, whose faith has deserted him, begins the Vespers service before an audience consisting solely of his church's staff and his atheist former mistress...
...many ways Julius Hobson is an anomaly among civil rights activists. He did not come out of the church, the poverty program, labor or politics. He has a reputation for being abrasive, even to those who side with him. He is an avowed Marxist and atheist in Washington, D.C., which he describes as a "Baptist, Methodist town." In the mid-'60s he was kicked out of the Congress of Racial Equality because he did not believe in its nonviolent strategy. He has frequently acted alone, and once admitted to friends that he could hold all of his meetings...
...sort of conduct eludes Bunuel's austere sense of outrage. An atheist who once remarked "I do not believe, thank God," Bunuel in his film mocks his own disgust at the corrupt and rigid structure of the Catholic Church. Though the sins of the clergy in this movie are venial and not carnal, they are still exposed. A bishop, on his way to give a dying man absolution, meets a peasant woman who whispers, "Father, I want to tell you something. I don't like Jesus Christ...Ever since I was a little child, I have hated him." Aghast...
...never an atheist," Singer continued, "for by his very nature he must grapple with higher powers. He may revile God but he cannot deny...