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...some unknown storyteller of the Middle Ages, it seems likely that Swedish Author Par Lagerkvist would have reinvented him to embody the mystical dialectic of his own devout skepticism. As a younger man. Lagerkvist-now 70-wrote of himself that he was "a believer without a belief, a religious atheist." Today, after half a century of novels, plays, stories and poems that earned him the Nobel Prize in 1951, Lagerkvist is still obsessed with God, still a believing unbeliever...
...playwright of the man who stands alone contemplating the difficulty of human communication, Genet represents the man who has been kicked to the ground and lies screaming. Only it's not a man at all: it's a woman and a homoexual and a convict. For, like the Atheist of the joke who antagonizes his religious friends by saying: "Sure, I believe in an anthropomorphic God: she's a Negro," Genet warns that White Christian Civilization must face up to its outcasts...
Present membership includes 20 students, among them "non-theists" (the Humanist appellation for atheist); "agnostics with consciences," and "humanists, who emphasize the importance...
...where is hell? Is it perhaps in a two-dimensional space? This would be devilishly uncomfortable for the damned and justly so. Or are heaven and hell one and the same place? After all, one man's heaven is another man's hell. Imagine the atheist in eternal contemplation of God, whom he so viciously denied. And the blessed could see and enjoy his embarrassment...
...Harvard--theist or atheist--possesses cultural references in a community where most people have none. Witness Mosaic...