Word: nonbelief
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...excommunicated from Amsterdam's Jewish community for holding these beliefs, and that he had also been condemned by the Catholic Church. "Cardinal O'Connell would have done well had he not attacked the Einstein theory," said one Bronx rabbi. "Einstein would have done better had he not proclaimed his nonbelief in a God who is concerned with fates and actions of individuals. Both have handed down dicta outside their jurisdiction...
...slaughtering one another (very much) over religious differences. But ecumenism goes beyond a simple agreement to disagree in peace or even a commitment to look for areas of shared belief. Ecumenism celebrates religious belief in the abstract. And that is the puzzle. Why is erroneous belief preferred over nonbelief? Spiritual brotherhood can start to look more like a conspiracy in restraint of trade. The religion cartel. We band together and solemnly agree not to poach one another's customers...
...Shavian play of jousting ideas. In dramatic kinship, Jumpers is a child of Shaw's Heartbreak House. In that play, written shortly before World War I, Shaw dramatized the sundering of the social fabric of Western civilization. Stoppard is concerned with the moral fabric, the abyss of nonbelief. He sees man, devoid of metaphysical absolutes, as rending his fellow man and reducing the planet to a desolate, lifeless cipher rather like the moon, which is a key symbol in Jumpers...
...Humor. As Cox sees it, mirth and festivity involve a certain juxtaposing of past with present, which has the effect of affirming experience. "When one approaches religious faith with a kind of playfulness," he says, "one can't become as anguished and inwardly torn up about belief and nonbelief as has been popular in recent theological literature. For both the Christian spirit and the comic sensibility nothing in life should be taken too seriously. The world is important but not ultimately so." One reason witty Cox is critical of a Christian atheist like Thomas Altizer is that "there...
...Khrushchev's farm program. It is 46 years since the revolution, and yet the Russian Orthodox Church still claims 50 million members in a population of 226 million; in addition, there are at least 25 million Moslems, 3.5 million Jews, and uncounted thousands who have been converted from nonbelief by the Baptists, Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses...
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