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...black mustache, was "vice commissar" of a secret group calling itself "C?C" (Curiosity Club). Its members, 24 boys, nine girls, all wore a uniform of black shirt, black breeches and black boots. Male members also were expected to grow mustaches. Meeting in members' houses, they discussed sex, atheism and a program they distilled from Plato, Aristotle and Edward Bellamy's Utopia. Specific points in their program: less restrictive marriage laws, more sex education, a plan (a kind of first cousin to "Thirty Dollars Every Thursday") to give everybody cash certificates to be spent within a year...
...Dean Matthews believes, "really needs no argument. I am personally very firmly convinced that every person has a direct assurance of God. Often this intuition is not attended to and remains a dim light. There are not actual atheists; a man becomes an atheist by reasoning himself into atheism out of a natural belief...
...filling U. S. Catholic, Jewish and Protestant churches. Last week, in collaboration with the Golden Rule Foundation, it launched a series of Brotherhood Days in a dozen cities. For the first time, the committee's efforts got some enthusiastic publicity. William Randolph Hearst signed an editorial denouncing atheism, and in Manhattan, where the first Brotherhood Day mass meeting was to be held in an armory, the New York Journal and American told how, inspired by this "powerful editorial warning," Protestant, Catholic and Jewish organizations were hurrying to obtain tickets. Headlines...
THOUSANDS TO FIGHT ATHEISM MONDAY...
...been forced to accept the legend that had him killed in a brawl over an anonymous "lewd wench" in an unnamed London tavern. Early Puritan writers considered Marlowe's terrible end at the age of 29 and at the height of his fame a just punishment for his atheism, wrote "See what a hooke the Lord put in the nostrils of this barking dogge!" but unfortunately did not give details. Strait-laced Victorians tended to emphasize Marlowe's dissolute habits in explaining his early death. Because Marlowe's patron was a Walsingham, and Sir Francis Walsingham...