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...When he prayed to "le bon Dieu" for his heart's desire, a job on "the hose", a wife with yellow hair, and a ride in a taxi-cab, and even payed good money to burn candles to his favorite saint, nothing happened; and so Chico forthwith became an atheist and went around proclaiming that God owed him fifteen francs. And it must have done some good for eventually God paid the debt. Tormented by a wicked, dope-ridden sister Diane for a time contemplated suicide, but took heart from Chico's robust philosophy of life, and eventually rose...
However much churches may be accused of not having kept their doctrines up to date, it cannot be denied that they use all available modern devices for enticing unwary sinners to their souls' salvation. On Sundays, the atheist must have a radio of high selectivity to keep hymns and homilies from intruding on the more secular programs which he, in his darkness, prefers to hear. Church fronts are everywhere decorated with lame aphorisms which a well-meaning pastor has composed after the pattern of happier advertising slogans. Long before the Babbitts had dreamed of luncheon clubs, church suppers, preceded...
...people, in my judgment, are not only unfair to the newspaper profession, but they are doing a decided injury to their fellowmen by perpetuating untruths among them. Being very fond of Walt Whitman, I am, of course, sufficiently familiar with his poetry to know that he was not an atheist, and I am also familiar with his history, and know that he was not ousted from the Treasury Department because of atheistic tendencies...
...following quotation from Whitman is characteristic and anyone familiar with his writings will, I think, like myself, resent the statement on Page 3 that he was an atheist...
WILLIAM E. CLARK. TIME called Mr. Whitman "Poet-Atheist" in contradistinction to the "true-Atheist" compared with him in the article referred to. Of course, the charge of atheism cannot be seriously leveled against him today, but the charge of godlessness ("defiance of the Deity," etc.) was leveled with others against Leaves of Grass. He was dismissed from his government post because he had written the book...