In those days I believed – though I was quite innocent – the police could do it if they desired. That very day, certain police officials began to persuade me to offer my prayers to god regularly both the times. Now I was an atheist. I wanted to settle for myself whether it was in the days of peace and enjoyment alone that I could boast of being an atheist or whether during such hard times as well I could stick to those principles of mine. After great consideration, I decided that I could not lead myself to believe in and pray to god. No, I never did. That was the real test and I came out
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