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...action is dynamic. The problem, if one exists at all, is a bewildering combination of theology, various kinds of complexes including the inferiority type, and the power of suggestion. If taken seriously it is ineffectual, but the fine touch of comedy withstands even the assaults of the dread term, atheism...
...week from the self-organization of eleven University of Rochester undergraduates into a "Damned Souls" society (TIME, March 15). The student newspaper, The Campus, published an editorial crying, needlessly, that the "Damned Souls" were not representative of the student body. And the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism took advantage of publicity to say that similar societies would be organized at other schools, specifically at Yale, whose charter provides that it shall "fit young men for service in church and civil state." The A. A. A. A. claims that many university professors are atheists...
...heavens fell not. Nor did the waters rise and the thunder rumble and the lightning strike them in their tracks. Not so much as a slip of paper from the dean's office fluttered down upon them. Though they proclaimed that the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, Inc. (Freeman Hapgood, general secretary), had welcomed them to membership, Dean Charles Hoeing did not so much as signify that he had ever heard of them or of Atheist Hapgood. The New York Times: "They will quickly bore each other to distraction...
...incorporation as "highly improper" and threw it out of court. Last week the incorporators turned to another Justice of the State Supreme Court, Justice Ford, with the petition somewhat toned down. He approved it, and in the natural course of events the "American Association for the Advancement of Atheism" will become an established fact. Part of its program is to erect radio stations to broadcast lectures and debates on science and religion and to publish anticlerical literature...
Said Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for Mayor of New York City: "Such a decision certainly is a violation of the right of every American citizen to promulgate religion, for that right certainly includes the right to promulgate atheism. When a group of persons take up atheism and wish to convert others to it, then atheism itself becomes a religion and all the rights concerning religious freedom apply...