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lack of belief in a God who cares. These two defini- 

 tions, if correct, divide all men into two classes, and, 

 according to this classification, most of the men in 

 the United States are Atheists." He seems to think 

 all men believe in a God, but a majority believe in 

 a God who does not care, and that is Atheism. 

 An Atheist has always been defined as one who 

 believes there is no God; now they may believe in 

 a God who does not care. This is not a very bad 

 distinction and may be the true one in the future. 

 For modern knowledge and culture forbids any 

 thinking man from denying the existence of a God, 

 and this may compel modern Atheism to modify 

 its creed and accept a don't-care God. 



He thinks this century may find an answer to the 

 immortality of the soul, and "it may be in the 

 affirmative through actual communication with 

 departed souls; or in the negative by scientific 

 demonstration that the spirit or soul of man is 

 only a name for the electrical and chemical actions 

 and reactions which occur in the body." He also 

 says: "The twentieth century may show whether 

 there is a great master hand that sweeps over the 

 whole of this deep harp of life, or whether men are 

 but pipes through whom the breath of ' Pan doth 

 blow a momentary music." Religion has nothing 

 to fear from the future; materialism is vanquished 

 and now Atheism must change its creed. 



Canon Farrar says : " Let us think noble thoughts 

 of God and break through the brain-spun meshes 

 of impotent negations. God is not vortices of atoms, 

 or streams of tendencies, or earth fermentations. 

 Heaven is not a vacuous eternity, or a future of 

 ceaseless psalmody." 



