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Said Dr. A. Wakefield Slaten, Unitarian clergymen: "The American guarantee of religious freedom means the atheists have the same right to organize for promotion of their views that other citizens have. Atheism is not immoral and no stigma attaches...
WILLIAM E. CLARK. TIME called Mr. Whitman "Poet-Atheist" in contradistinction to the "true-Atheist" compared with him in the article referred to. Of course, the charge of atheism cannot be seriously leveled against him today, but the charge of godlessness ("defiance of the Deity," etc.) was leveled with others against Leaves of Grass. He was dismissed from his government post because he had written the book...
Evangelists are needed in the colleges to overcome "atheism and moral chaos"--this is the prescription recommended by the Reverend Doctor S. Edward Young, a Presbyterian minister of Brooklyn. Dr. Young assumes that the tendency in the colleges is toward atheism, and he assumes, moreover, that moral chaos is the natural outcome of atheism. Neither assumption seems justified...
...such sin fell empires, states and nations. Religion shudders at the wild orgy of atheism and immorality the situation forebodes...
There was trouble. Leaders of nine campus organizations declared the editorial misrepresented student feeling. The Cardinal board went into conclave. The Rev. Pastor Hengell of the university chapel declared that atheism and anarchy were abroad in the university and this was but an outcropping thereof. It was the kind of writing that led to the assassination of President McKinley, thought Pastor Hengell. Said he: "May it not lead some youthful student with a grandiose complex of mock heroics, to assassinate a Madison policeman...