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...Foot on the Gas. Strong images refract strong emotions. Voznesensky is wildly excited by "godless/ baseball-crazy/ gasoline-hazy/ America!" A passionate patriot, he is also a ferocious critic of Communism. In a horrendous poem printed in 1963, he likens the relation between the Russians and their rulers to that between Peter the Great and one of his mistresses. Having cut off the poor wench's head, the czar snatched it up again by the hair and then, according to eyewitnesses, kissed the bloody carrion passionately on the lips. Unlike Evtushenko, however, Voznesensky is not primarily a political poet...
...teaching of godless theologians does not represent what most faithful, intelligent clergy and parishioners believe. If God seems dead to these theologians, this is a matter of their lack of faith. We should pray to God to forgive them...
...traditional "image" of the Creator is obsolete. They say that it is no longer possible to think about or believe in a transcendent God who acts in human history, and that Christianity will have to survive, if at all, without him. Altizer notes that this new kind of Godless Christianity is a uniquely American phenomenon, although it acknowledges an intellectual debt to certain European thinkers, religious as well as secular. From Sören Kierkegaard, the death-of-God thinkers developed the idea that organized Christianity is a kind of idolatry that has obscured the real message of the Gospel...
...Godless Christian thinkers admit that they are a long way from working out a coherent theology. Understandably, they feel a certain anguish because the direction of their thought leads them to feel greater sympathy for Camus than for clergymen of their own churches. Nonetheless, they argue that God's disappearance from human history cannot be denied, and that there is nothing wrong with a Christian accepting this as a fact. As Hamilton asks, in his book The New Essence of Christianity: "If Jesus can wonder about being forsaken by God, are we to be blamed if we wonder...
Instrument of the Godless. There was, of course, a measure of redundancy in the Pope's statement; even before Paul's address, no one had seriously doubted that he and his church were committed to world peace. But it was an open question whether the speech-no matter how sincere its message and dramatic the circumstance-would do much to further his lofty goals. Certainly it would bolster the morale of the professional diplomats who hope to see the U.N. roused from its present state of impotence. Certainly the Pope's unqualified endorsement of the organization would...