Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-12-27
Atheism Kicks Back
On The Atheists

There is a good deal being written
on what the atheists are trying to do
to Christianity. There is not so much
said of what atheism has done to the
atheists. The gun not only shoots a
bullet but it recoils or kicks back.
Atheism's kick-back on the atheists IS
startling, tragic.
A man who knows what he is talk
ing about, from bitter experience, IS
writing a series of the most sensa-
.ional disclosures in this field that
have ever been published. He used to
be a radical newspaper man, editing
labor organ. Of brains and intel
lectuality he has more than most
men. A college graduate, with the
degree of Bachelor Of Science, he
became an intimate member OF a
thinking, loose-lving communi-
ty of journalists, artists, agitators,
"freed" from the shackles of
traditionalism and the beliefs of our
grandfathers!
He became editor of labor organ.
Jack London was one of his acquain-
tances. This brilliant novelist and
traveller wrote: 81 believe that when
| am dead am dead. / believe that
when l die l shall be as completely
obliterated as the last mosquito that
you or l smashed" That was the
creed of this man, who says: at was
the creed of Jack London's section of
the literary world. 1t was and is the
creed of thousands of artists. 1t was
and is the creed of the radical wing
of labor's vast army. 1t was my creed.
It is the creed of despair"
But this man became Christian,
and the story of his conversion was
published in the Sunday School
Times. He has now written new
series of articles that will appear eX-
clusively in the Times.
Remember, he knows the world of
which he writes intimately, from the
inside, from personal acquaintance
with it's leaders and with those who
are still its devoted members. He is
not writing theory but stark, black
facts. To secure material for these
articles he has had interviews with
notorious criminals now behind the
bars in San Quentin Prison-their
names cannot be mentioned, but they
are known to newspaper readers
throughout the world. He has talked
with Jack London's old neighbors,
and with his widow. True stories of
typical men and women will be told,
including such as those now serving
life sentences; a brilliant intellectual
society woman who accepted and
fostered radicalism; another woman,
wife of a journalist, who fell in love
with clever agitator and started out
to Give her own life" in the "new
way; man of power, once a
preacher and once candidate for
mayor in leading city.
The writer Is a personal friend of
the Editor of THE SUNDAY
SCHOOL TIMES, and says in a
recent letter:
"The atheists being Influenced by
the American Association for the
Advancement of Atheism are mostly
lot of misguided young enthusiasts
'rho do not realize what they are
doing. They are sowing to the wind,
and will in their own lives, sooner or
later, reap the whirlwind. I belong to
a generation of professional unbe-
levers who are past or fast passing
"a generation who have paid the
price in broken lives, broken homes,
and who have nothing to show for
their goddess propaganda but the
ashes of gloom and pessimism. l in
tend to show by actual facts how this
thing works out in human lives"