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Although he is now a Roman Catholic priest in Paris, Lepp has the credentials to explain the mind of the atheist: he was one himself for 27 years, and a Communist to boot. Born into a family of freethinkers, he joined the party at the age of 15 and unquestioningly assumed that religion was an enemy of social progress: "Since all my teachers were professed atheists, I considered myself to be one also." So long as he was striving for a Communist future, Lepp says, "I felt no need of God." He acquired degrees in medicine and philosophy (and even...
Scratching Mice. Partch grew up on the Mexican border, where his father, an ex-missionary who thought of himself as an "aggressive atheist," had gone to work for the Immigration Service. By the time he was 22, Harry had composed a scholastically pleasing string quartet, a symphonic poem and a piano concerto, but he set fire to them all a few years later when he was struck by the revelation that the spaces between the keys hold more fascination than the keys themselves. Eventually he arrived at a 43-tone octave and brought the good news to the Irish poet...
...rule adopted by the board of school commissioners back in 1905, the daily opening exercises in the city's public schools included the "reading, without comment, of a chapter in the Holy Bible and/or the use of the Lord's Prayer." Madalyn E. Murray, self-professed atheist and mother of two school-age sons, brought suit to get the rule repealed...
...alienated souls" of the modern world for whom heaven and hell do not exist, and who must look to their own origins for the polarities of the spirit. "The need for roots exists; the need which unappeased drives the human heart to paralysis and self-destruction." Read is an atheist of religious temperament who has achieved the rare feat of transferring his natural reverence from God to God's creation without falling into current humanistic idolatries about man. He hates political man and distrusts all human groups above the size of a British infantry platoon (30 men). Most...
...Binghamton, people always thought Moore was peculiar. He was a pacifist and an atheist, who even objected to the words "In God We Trust" on U.S. coins. Binghamton was accustomed to his one-man picket parades. Whether urging fluoridation of the local water supply or protesting against the downtown display of an Atlas missile or prayers in public schools, Moore would hang a sign around his neck and start marching...