On Religion

Dr. J. W. Elder, who aggressively maintained: "To satisfy some inner need man invented an 'ad loc' gods system." This assertion left no group short of a discussion-topic! "Man is but a drop in the river of time and knowledge," continued Dr. Elder, "and he loses both his identity and life at death." These remarks, naturally, did not go unchallenged but the resultant division into theist and atheist factions, though marked, was no barrier to earnest and productive discussion. Dr. Elder's philosophy of "here and now and do pursue pleasure" obviously appealed to the "extreme atheists" (is that a synonym for beatnik?) Who found it very easy to discount the "notions" the "die-hards refuse to abandon."