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...Russian Communists started to undermine the power of the Russian Orthodox Church they welcomed into their country Baptists, Methodists, helped thereby to create factions in the Orthodox Church and weaken it. In time however, the Baptists grew so strong that not only was Russian Orthodoxy threatened but also Russian Atheism. The Soviet Government, therefore, has lately passed several laws intended to weaken Baptist activities (TIME, April 22). Last week, Russian Baptists, still strong, conducted a mass and total Baptism in the Moscow River. Horrified the Soviet Working Moscow editorialized: "Right here in Moscow! With the All Union Atheist Convention just...
Enemy to the Russian Orthodox Church is the Soviet Government. But Soviets can be subtle. To combat orthodoxy they chose not atheism or agnosticism, but Baptist and Methodist missionaries. The Soviet plan: to foster Baptist activities and thus enfeeble orthodoxy. This was in 1921. Last week the shrewd Soviets had to admit they had blundered...
...playwright has reduced the problem to unjustifiably simple terms. His querist springs from a clash between fundamentalism and atheism. He is the son of an unyielding minister and he is in love with the daughter of a belligerent unbeliever. Driven by the fear inspired by both these attitudes he sets out to find a god before whom he will not have to cower...
...such sin fell empires, states and nations. Religion shudders at the wild orgy of atheism and immorality the situation forebodes...
...Florida. But Arkansas has gone further than to place an anti-evolution bill on the ballot for referendum. The municipal government of Little Rock has given unimpeachable evidence that agitation against such a measure is not there the inalienable right of any citizen of the United States. The Atheism Association may be wrong and intolerant themselves in the beliefs they hold. But amazing and munificent publicity, that second wealth of America, has been given them...