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...said about the Harvard atheist or agnostic is that he does not seem disturbed. He has rejected any positive belief in some of the cardinal propositions that have sustained an nourished his civilization for thousands of years, but on any issue, moral or political, other than the theistic one, he appears indistinguishable from his believing classmates...
...Tillich concludes, there is really no such thing as Christian existentialism. Christians who question life in existentialist terms answer as Christians. "For this reason, I do not believe that the ordinary distinction between atheistic and theistic existentialism makes any sense. As long as an existentialist is theistic, he is either not existentialist or he is not really theistic...
...proposing more religion courses, the Council stated that its "major concern is that religion be treated . . . in a reasonably thorough, systematic, and critical way." The group felt that courses should include anti-theistic as well as theistic philosophies, and stressed objectivity in presentation...
...poll should be tempered with a large dose of realism. It is very easy to check an answer on a questionnaire, particularly if the answer proves one a good person. It is quite another matter to live on the assumption of the validity of the Christian (or even the theistic) philosophy in the routine of daily life...
Without this sense of contingency, "there isn't any springboard for theistic metaphysics * ...After all, how would one expect [traditional metaphysics] to soften up a monolithic materialist like H. G. Wells, or an anti-humanist like Picasso, or a happy naturalist like British Cosmologist Fred Hoyle...