The decline of religion in modern times means simply that religion is no longer the uncontested center and ruler of man's life, and that the Church i… - William Barrett

One does wish that Sartre would pause for a while to regroup his forces. The man really does write too much.

As a teacher of philosophy, a very dubious profession in this country, I am in a position to observe how precarious a hold the intellect has upon American life; and this is not true merely of the great majority of students but of cultured people, of intellectuals, to whom here in America a philosophical idea is an alien and embarrassing thing. In their actual life Americans are not only a non-intellectual but an anti-intellectual people.

Heidegger's philosophy is neither atheism nor theism, but a description of the world from which God is absent.