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...Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair's son William [May 26] is a living symbol of what God can do for a person, no matter how far he may stray. God still loves his mother, if only she would turn...
...Ocean from the sun-parched Kara Kum Desert. The 262.4 million citizens of the U.S.S.R. belong to more than 100 ethnic groups and claim descent from Varangians, Turks, Mongols and countless Eurasian tribes. Their government preaches to them, in Russian, about the supreme wisdom of a 19th century German atheist. They, however, speak in more than 100 tongues and worship Jehovah, God, Buddha, Allah, or the animist spirits of nomadic hunters in the far north...
Something is stirring in Russian Orthodoxy. Congregations are getting younger. Applications for seminaries are increasing. About two-thirds of the new priests come from families that are indifferent or hostile to religion, a dramatic indication that youthful unbelievers are converting to Christianity, despite the atheist orientation of Soviet schools. The graduates at Zagorsk are about to take up their duties with a church that still maintains 11,000 active parishes after six decades of Soviet rule, often marked by systematic persecution. Official Soviet statistics admit two out of five burials are accompanied by a church service...
...just graduated from Duke and told me that while there he had gotten religion and was going to become a minister. "You're the exception rather than the rule," I told him. "Often the Sunday School boy goes off to college and becomes an atheist...
...issued a joint statement, however, with her other son Jon, and William's 14-year-old daughter Robin, who lives with her. The statement notes sarcastically that the three are pleased William "is going to retire early and live off religious money. We are happy when any atheist gets some of that Christian scam money." Puzzled, William responds that there is no money...