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...abuse of language to call "Citizen Tom Paine a soldier-atheist"? He was an avowed deist who wrote The Age of Reason to combat French irreligion...
...election to establish-though it well served to recall-what a unique encounter i diverse traditions is contained in the words "American Catholic." In the historical reality behind those words St Ignatius Loyola, founder of John Courtney Murray's order and soldier-saint meets Citizen Tom Paine, soldier-atheist. St. Thomas, the Angelic Doctor and patient builder of a great intellectual system, meets John Dewey, pragmatist and patient destroyer of systems. Monasticism, shielding a candle through the Dark Ages, meets the blaze of the Enlightenment. The Inquisition meets the Supreme Court, the apostolic succession meets the clapboard Congregationalist Church...
...Protestant churches are influencing or trying to influence national politics as much as they claim the Catholics will if put into high offices. Therefore, I conclude, the only way to prevent the presidency from being influenced by religion, either Catholic or Protestant, is to elect an objective, free-minded atheist...
...many newspapers and columnists, the devil's due was the back of their hand. You are a godless man, an atheist," wrote Pierre J. Huss of the Hearst Headline Service. "In coming here as a U.N. delegate, your intentions are all bad. You can leave any time, and good riddance." Hearst's New York Journal-American besought all New York to join in 60 seconds of silence "as a mute memorial to victims of Red tyranny," and later headlined a story of a few anti-Communist demonstrations in New York: HATE ROARS OVER CITY LIKE A PENT...
Yoga originated in India thousands of years ago, and it clearly states that its practice can be successfully taken up by a Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Hebrew, et al., as well as by an atheist...