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VoI.25, No.5 May, 1983

REGULAR FEATURES

Editorial: Are the Only Alternatives 'Dead or Red'? 2

Focus on Atheists: Pittburgh's City Fathers and Brothers 10

Dial-an-Atheist 27

FEATURED COLUMNISTS

Atheism as a Specific Science -

Gerald Tholen

15

If the 'Second Coming of Christ' Were Tomorrow

- Merrill Holste ............................. 20

Keep the Home Fires Burning -

Margaret Bhatty

28

The Root of Evi l

Richard Smith

29

Anatomy of Propaganda -

Jeff Frankel.

33

ARTICLES

Remarks of the President to the 41st Annual Convention

of the National Association of Evangelicals 4

The Religious Adolf Hitler 8

The Existence of God Can Be Tested - John W. Patterson 12

The Pentagon's Secret First-Strike Plans -

Robert Aldridge

14

POEMS

That Man -

Robin Eileen Murray O'Hair

19

So Simple - Angeline Bennett 27

NEWS

Summer Solstice Picnic 32

Editor-in-Chief

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Managing Editor

Jon G. Murray

Assistant Editor

Richard M. Smith

Poetry

Robin Murray O'Hair

Angeline Bennett

Gerald Tholen

Production Staff

Art Brenner

BillKight

Gerald Tholen

Gloria Tholen

Alexander Stevens

Richard Richardson

Non-Resident Staff

G. Stanley Brown

Jeff Frankel

Merrill Holste

Margaret Bhatty

Fred Woodworth

Clayton Powers

The American Atheist magazine is pub-

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can Atheist Press, 2210 Hancock Dr., Aus-

tin, TX 78756, and 1982 by Society of

Separationists, Inc., a non-profit, non-politi-

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ISSN: 0332-4310

ON THE COVER

Hello, there - and welcome to How-

dy Doody time. You recall that in a

previous episode rev. Ronnie had at-

tempted (by invoking world peace

and brotherhood ) to arrange aspec-

tacular outdoor Western style barbe-

cue. Hehadsought to nuke millions

of pounds of atheistic commie briskets

(several times over) a la first and

second strike. He subsequently be-

came aware that his less than enthusi-

astic battery of chefs (the Congress)

were fearful that such an enormous

pit fire would ignite the entire neigh-

borhood and probably pollute the

whole countryside.

Not to be discouraged, however, his

masterful thespian-minded back-

ground enabled him to quickly shift to

yet another ingenious plan. Ifwe could-

n't have braised commie shortrlbs, he

decided he would bedazzle everyone

with a colossal display of outer-space

fireworks in the form of laser-rays,

particle beams, etc. Surely this idea

would so impress the masses that

they would scarcely notice the 2 tril-

lion+ dollar invoice for the fire-

works. GoodoldJoe Taxpayer would-

n't mind shelling out for such a mar-

velous planl The trouble now was that

Joe had been unemployed for the past

18 months and couldn't even afford

half a dozen bottle rocketsl

At this writing our super-genious

leader has shifted once again. Not to

be denied his christian crusade

against evil, hehasdecided the only

thing conceivable at this time would

be to totally stupefy the satanic

forces with a bloodless electromag-

netic super bomb. Not only would

this knock out attack and' defense

communications - it would also dis-

able the electronic quality control

equipment in their vodka distilleriesl

It doesn't seem likely that this plan

will fare much better, so I thought I

would offer yet another suggestion to

the reverend: Have the U.S. military

design a two-hundred-yard long ar-

row which can be shot parallel to the

ground. Next time the soviets hold a

military parade outside the Kremlin

wecan launch these devicesand skew-

erentire battalions of evil red troops

in a gigantic shishkebabl

Gerald Tholen

Austin, Texas

May, 1983

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