Word: atheists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Atheist...
...Page 3, under a picture of Walt Whitman, you make the statement THE LATE WHITMAN, and under that, Poet-Atheist...
Last week one Loren H. Wittner, clerk in the Treasury Department and professed atheist, applied for an injunction to stop payment of salaries to the Superintendent of Schools in Washington, and the head of the Biology and Chemistry Departments of Washington high schools. He based his action on a rider to the District of Columbia appropriation act for this year which provides : ". . . that no part of this sum shall be available for the payment of the salary of any superintendent, assistant superintendent, director of intermediate instruction or supervising principal who permits the teaching of partisan politics, disrespect of the Holy...
...believe that any court will hold the oath constitutional, because swearing to it virtually means that Government clerks must accept the definite religion of Christianity. That would be a violation of the first article of the Constitution. As I am a true atheist, I could not conscientiously sign an oath containing those words, for that would have demanded that I lie." Said Congressman Thomas L. Blanton of Texas...
...College in this matter. For Harvard has realized, vaguely at first, but more and more through the years that all blind religion and superstitious ceremonialism inevitably must go. So dogmas have slumbered, compulsory chapel has ceased to exist, and Harvard has come to be called the college of the atheist...