America's Favorite Atheist
June, 2001
Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the litigious and loudmouthed atheist, had every reason to think she might someday be murdered. She received mountains of hate mail, which she talked of compiling into a book: Letters From Christians. Thirty-five years after the lawsuit that made her famous, O'Hair was murdered. She died not for God but for mammon.In our age of ho-hum blasphemy, it's hard to fathom just how gutsy a thing Madalyn Murray (as she was then known) did in 1960, amid Dial-a-Prayer, Norman Vincent...