Word: atheistical
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...adult reader with a strong stomach, the scandalous and scurvy parts are worth reading more than the ornithological thimbleriggery. When Miller assumes the role of atheist-theologian, no such apocalyptic poppycock could be found outside the atelier of a Sunset Strip swami. On encountering words like "Life," "Love," "God," "Art," etc., a first rule for the reader is to reach 'for the safety catch of his syllogism. If not armed with this weapon he could try a simpler trick, what might be called the "No Game" of slipping in a negative each time Miller makes a cosmic positive statement...
...Athens knew any more about Euripides than an average TV watcher knows about T. S. Eliot. In this, as in other matters, Author Fitch is rather too much the glib child of his times. In the '20s Author Fitch was a student expatriate in Paris and an atheist (originally a Presbyterian, he later became a Congregationalist). In the '30s he was a Socialist bent on electing Norman Thomas. In the '50s he became a conservative and began writing sophisticated, neo-orthodox epistles to the agnostics. Tacking with such skill with each decade's winds of doctrine...
...sing the 123rd Psalm," called a big. broad-shouldered man in a fur-collared overcoat. The militant atheist leader knew what to do. "Break it up. citizens." he ordered and commanded the women to leave while they questioned the men. One of the group had arrived only that day from the Ukraine. "I got off the train and just asked passers-by where to find true believers," he said...
...Brecht was an atheist who believed not in the truth, but in probability. In contrast to the agnostic, he did not doubt for the sake of doubting; he weighed alternative courses of action for the sake of choosing one, and he chose Communism not because it struck him as infallible, but because he saw it as the most likely instrument of anti-Fascism and social justice. Thus, in a poetic attack on revisionism, he wrote...
Twilight of a Virger. The present undergraduates, Novelist Sheed deposes, are a dim lot, meanly concerned with security and job worthiness, impervious to general ideas, irreligious but without any definite atheist convictions, leading a sex life that is Casanovanic in theory but monastic in fact, boorishly bathed in beer, sweating out a degree and fighting to smother a lower-middle-class background with the correct set of socially acceptable diphthongs. The non-hero of this cad's paradise is John Chote, president of the junior common room at Sturdley College, an ancient, deliquescent foundation with a Victorian Gothic...