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Defying God, if He exists, to strike one dead, is all very well for the smalltime, itinerant atheist. But hamfisted, leather-lunged Emelyan Yaroslavsky is the biggest shot in world atheism. As the walloping chairman of the Soviet League of Militant Godless, Comrade Yaroslavsky pulls the levers of a Juggernaut that rumbles on night and day, crunching Russian churches, chasing priests from their holes, destroying icons and uprooting holy matrimony-but not fecund wedlock...
...minute ritual and all the new features that a new Fraternity should have" to those who believe in ''a Supreme Being . . . in the leadership and supremacy of the White Race . . . a Bible in every school . . . Old Glory floating over every public building." They urgently oppose atheism and Communism...
Adalberzo Tejeda's word is all but law in the oil-rich coastal State of Veracruz. He subscribes to the "regular" Mexican politics of Socialism and atheism, but he is drastic and immediate about it. In 1932, as Governor of Veracruz, he pushed through the State Legislature a law subjecting "property rights of all classes of possessions ... to enforced expropriation for reasons of social utility, with indemnification." At this great grab even Calles' Federal politicians were appalled. They ordered Tejeda to back down. He pondered the law. finally changed the word "social" to "public" and signed...
This modern miracle play is the conversion of a sensitive middle-aged man John Loving, back to the Catholic form of Christianity through a perfect marriage. John is one of the "modern temper" group of twentieth century intellectuals who has run the gamut of atheism, socialism, and Bolshevism. That love and marriage had been abolished in the latter state and that schoolboys were throwing spitballs at Almighty God delighted this iconoclast. But it is the religion of love as symbolized and poetized in Christian dogma that brings him to conversion. Religion supplied the necessary ideal meaning of his earthly...
...should hear of Auguste Comte; it did not care to explore the moral results of the industrial revolution. Nor does it care to discuss them now, with the result that most American undergraduates still think of Socialism as a scholastic crotchet that is first cousin to free love and atheism. Mr. Hoover, one remembers, thought that all good things should drop from above. They did not in the economic structure, and they will not in the academic. All power to the National Student League or to any other undergraduate organization which can see its own hand before...