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Armageddon: Ronald Lindsay Patrick Buchanan Are We Living Mark Twain in the Last Days? Do Kids Need Special Feature to Pray? Armageddon: Ronald Lindsay Patrick Buchanan Are We Living Mark Twain in the Last Days? Robert Alley Joseph Barnhart Vern Bullough Randei Helms John Priest Gerald Larue James Robinson Religion and Science in Future Constitutional Conflicts Delos B. McKown Jerry, Pat, Billy, and Oral at the Last Barbecue SUMMER 1984 F c in ISSN 0272-0701 VOI.. 4, NO. 3 Contents 3 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SCHOOL PRAYER 5 Editorial: Is Prayer Essential to Morality? Paul Kurtz 6 Why Do Kids Need to Pray? Ronald A. Lindsay 9 The School Prayer Crusade Patrick J. Buchanan 10 In the "Good Old Days" Mark Twain ARTICLES 12 Science vs. Religion in Future Constitutional Conflicts Delos B. McKown 18 God and the Professors Sidney Hook ARMAGEDDON AND BIBLICAL APOCALYPTIC 28 Introduction: Doomsday Prophecies Paul Kurtz 31 Apocalypse Macabre Joseph Edward Barnhart 34 Hal Lindsey's Late Great Armageddon Update Vern L. Bullough 36 The Dangers of Apocalyptic Thinking Randel Helms 39 Dimensions of Apocalyptic Thinking Gerald A. Larne 42 What Is Biblical Apocalyptic? John Priest 47 Jesus as an Apocalypticist James Robinson 50 The Bible as an Engine of American Foreign Policy Robert S. Alley BOOKS 58 Secular Humanism and the Schools Tad S. Clements 59 Harrington's Marx and God Edward Walter 60 Sex and the Bible Robert T. Hall 63 Is the U.S. Humanist Movement in a State of Collapse? John Dart 64 ON THE BARRICADES 66 CLASSIFIED Editor: Paul Kurtz Associate Editors: Gordon Stein, Lee Nisbet Assistant Editors: Doris Doyle, Andrea Szalanski Art Director: Gregory Lyde Vigrass Contributing Editors: Lionel Abel, author, critic, SUNY at Buffalo; Paul Beattie, president, Fellowship of Religious Humanists; Jo-Ann Boydston, director, Dewey Center; Laurence Briskman, lecturer, Edinburgh University, Scotland; Vern Bullough, historian, State University of New York College at Buffalo; Albert Ellis, director, Institute for Rational Living; Roy P. Fairfield, social scientist, Union Graduate School; Joseph Fletcher, theologian, University of Virginia Medical School; Antony Flew, philosopher, Reading University, England; Sidney Hook, professor emeritus of philosophy, NYU; Marvin Kohl, philosopher, State University of New York College at Fredonia; Jean Kotkin, executive director, American Ethical Union; Gerald Larue, professor emeritus of archaeology and biblical history, USC; Ernest Nagel, professor emeritus of philosophy, Columbia University; Cable Neuhaus, correspondent; Howard Radest, director, Ethical Culture Schools; Robert Rimmer, author; M. L. Rosenthal, professor of English, New York University; William Ryan, free-lance reporter, novelist; Svetozar Stojanovic, professor of philosophy, University of Belgrade; Thomas Szasz, psychiatrist, Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse; V. M. 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Address subscription orders, changes of address, and advertising to: FREE INQUIRY, Box 5, Central Park Station, Buffalo, NY 14215. Manuscripts, letters and editorial inquiries should be addressed to: The Editor, FREE INQUIRY, Box 5. Central Park Station, Buffalo. N.Y. 14215. All manuscripts should be accompanied by two additional copies and a stamped, addressed envelope. Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors or publisher. 2 FREE INQUIRY simply bigger denominations. He thus con- tinues to suggest that all enthusiastic minus- cule religions are equally guilty of child neglect or abuse, which surely is not true LETTERS TO THE EDITOR and which Streiker has certainly not shown. And further, he fails to bring out how largely the gaps in the law's shield are holes punched by the Christian Science lobby. Christian Science being larger and longer established is not, 1 take it, for Streiker Church-State Entanglement struck down as unconstitutional should the either a sect or a cult. Christian Science church ever attempt to Second, Streiker quotes with approval the judgment that "there is no constitutional The predominantly Christian Supreme Court enforce it: right to choose to die.... The state's interest has determined that the Pawtucket, Rhode 1. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Island, municipality's official display of the Constitution guarantees equal protection in sustaining life ... is hardly different from nativity scene does not "create excessive under the law to all persons. The Eddy law its interest in the case of suicide"; and com- entanglement between religion and govern- grants a specific privilege to one group never ments "The very foundation of this country ment." Maybe just a little entanglement— enjoyed by any other person or organization. is the recognition that the right to life trans- the display of kings bearing gifts, shepherds, 2. By granting to a religious group cends all others." Certainly the intervention angels, and a manger in which the baby special legal privileges not enjoyed by non- of the state to protect minors from gross Jesus lies with arms spread in apparent religious groups, Congress has violated the parental abuse or neglect can and should be benediction, costs $1,365 of taxpayers' First Amendment prohibition against estab- justified by reference to the right to life money. A little here, a little there, but it is a lishing a religion. claimed in the Declaration of Independence. little like a doctor telling a woman that she 3. The arbitrary and selective extension But to appeal to that right to justify laws is a little bit pregnant. It is a cowardly way of copyright makes it possible for a group criminalizing both adult suicide in general of sneaking mythology into the back door to suppress the publication and critical and in particular the suicide or assisted sui- of government, but proselytizing is the back- examination of certain books of historical cide of voluntary euthanasia is quite another bone of their religion. interest. This is a clear assault on the free- matter. For to construe my right to life as In my lifetime, clergymen have gotten dom of speech, and if upheld, grants the requiring that 1 be forced to stay alive more and more power. They have seen fit government broad new powers to suppress whether or not I so wish is like construing to participate in public debates (from private and censor ideas. the right of free association as warranting pulpit and public podium) regarding blue It cannot be the case that church law- or requiring compulsory membership in laws, censorship, birth control, divorces, yers are unaware of the constitutional prob- whatever associations are in question. race, labor, abortion, movies, TV, gambling, lems with this law. They are undoubtedly sports, entertainment, dress, drugs, sex, hoping that the mere threat of prosecution Antony Flew wars, disarmament, politics—you name it. for copyright infringement will suffice to York University These activities are direct participation in deter all who might wish to publish Eddy's Downsview, Ont., Canada government and sectarian processes; and yet uncensored works. Thus far their scheme these same people of mythology enjoy vast has worked. My understanding is that the individual and property tax-exemptions. uncensored writings of Eddy are so trans- Academic Freedom parently absurd that no educated person at Falwell's College E. M. Thomason could ever take them seriously. This Hayward, Calif. apparently is the motivation for the ques- It would appear that Lynn Ridenhour (FI, tionable extension of copyright. It seems to Winter 1983/84) has ripped the mask of me that some organization in the forefront academic freedom from the face of Liberty Christian Science of the church/state battle ought to challenge Baptist College. 1, unfortunately, must state this very dubious law. that if his account of my chapel appearance The matter of Mary Baker Eddy's unique is any indication of the accuracy of the rest "copyright extensions" came up at a recent Robert Sheaffer of his article, then readers of FREE INQUIRY Committee for the Scientific Investigation San Jose, Calif. should withhold judgment on the issue until of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) someone less clever and more objective looks conference. As the law now stands, copy- into the matter. rights last a maximum of seventy-five years, Religion and Child Abuse I never told Liberty's students to stay unless your name is Mary Baker Eddy, in out of art museums, not to read books, or which case you have another seventy-five Lowell Streiker ("Ultrafundamentalist Sects stay out of theaters. 1 told them what was years added. This is not only blatantly and Child-Abuse," FI, Spring 1984) goes in such places
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