The Abington v. Schempp case outlawed school-sponsored Bible reading. He was also the grandson of T.H. Huxley. Evolutionary man can no longer take refuge from his loneliness by creeping for shelter into the arms of a divinized father-figure whom he himself has created . . . Ambrose Bierce was born - Bierce was a writer, a satirist, and an atheist. He was the subject of the novel and movie Old Gringo , and was most noted for his book The Devil's Dictionary .
Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.
Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. This case decided that prayers at public school graduation ceremonies are unconstitutional. The Constitution forbids the state to exact religious conformity from a student as the price of attending her own graduation. It is a matter of history that this very practice of establishing governmentally composed prayers for religious services was one of the reasons which caused many of our early colonists to leave England and seek religious freedom in America. The State, ecclesiastical and secular, served to give an appearance of legality and right to the wrong done by the few to the many.