Religion: The Enemy of God

A brisk grey-haired zealot is Joseph Lewis, 46, onetime shirtmaker who calls himself "The Enemy of God." As president of the Freethinkers of America, Inc. (30,000 members at $1 a year), Mr. Lewis does a thriving business in anti-religious books and sex manuals, busies himself at all times waging guerrilla warfare against the churches of his Enemy. Legalistically Freethinker Lewis hardly ever wins a battle. In the New York courts where he does most of his fighting, the judges are likely to be good Roman Catholics or devout Jews. Last week the...

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