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Reporters have dug up a 1955 letter from Ross to his father, asking the senior Perot to use his influence to get his son out of the Navy before the four-year hitch standard for Annapolis graduates was over. Reason: he found the Navy "fairly Godless" and was constantly offended by the blasphemous language and moral laxity of his shipmates. Perot blithely ignores the question of whether he could really have been that naive and, as he often does when one of his stories is not believed, produces another. The real reason he wanted out of the Navy, he says...
Harvard's "heresy" so repelled then-President Increase Mather that he left in 1701 to found a "new, more pious academy" in New Haven. And today, one of the most common adjectives tacked in front of "Harvard" when speaking of religion is "godless...
...great ironies is that this place is called `godless Harvard.' There are few colleges where there are more lively varieties of religious expression than here," he says...
Such theological distinctions are lost, however, on a younger generation of radicals, who accuse the official Islamic establishment of having collaborated with a godless Soviet regime. "It doesn't matter that they are Shi'ite over there and we are Sunni," argues a militant in the Uzbek city of Namangan. "The Ayatullah made Iran strong and glorious, while in Sunni Turkey they have weakened Islam...
Scum begins in Warsaw. Max Barabander is a godless, physically impressive, womanizing ex-convict whose mid-life crisis leads him to abandon respectability in Argentina for the impoverished streets of his youth. At 47, his life has been completely disrupted. Max's only son has died, and he and his wife Rochelle find themselves haunted by a newly-discovered consciousness of their own frailty...