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...duel staged last night in the Living Room of the Union. Before an enthusiastic, responsive audience which packed the room and listened motionless throughout three hours, the divine and the psychologist thrust and parried on the subject: "Resolved, That this house believes that the growing tendency toward Agnosticism and Atheism is undermining our social structure". Dr. Straton, upholding this question, received 157 of his listeners' votes; Professor Givler won those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENSATIONAL DUEL OF WORDS ENDS IN STRATON'S DEFEAT | 11/30/1927 | See Source »

...Agnosticism and Atheism are the denial of God", said Dr. Straton in his powerful, clear delivery, "and since America is founded on faith in God, they are anti-American. The Pilgrims drafted the charter of the new settlement with the Bible their only guide, and it was devotion to God Almighty that brought them to these shores and sustained them. America is unique in the history of the world in that it is founded on religion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENSATIONAL DUEL OF WORDS ENDS IN STRATON'S DEFEAT | 11/30/1927 | See Source »

...street* remembers or not according to temperament and inclinations, such as filling up the plentiful spare time which Socialists would have with free love, books, Art (meaning painting, sculpture, etc.), and eating vegetables. A pious man-in-the-street usually suspects Socialism of connoting also Atheism. Shy men-in-the-street think it involves going around in public without any trousers on. Lazy men-in-the-street have heard that Karl Marx listed Work as a prime ingredient of the perfect state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Chairman Berger | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

Will you kindly give space to this letter, and courteously answer the charge of my friends. Are you or not interested in promoting Atheism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

TIME is not interested in promoting Atheism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

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