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...math person, so I made a flow chart,” explains Claire V. McCusker ’04, a government concentrator in Leverett House who completed her conversion to Catholicism from atheism two days before she arrived on campus. Following intense scrutiny, reading and discussion about religion, her flow chart consisted of premises concluding that, for her, “Catholicism was true...
Perhaps elite universities and richer countries tend to be more secular only because they can entertain illusions of total security and complacency that the rest of the world knows are delusional. Smart people aren’t being more rational or intelligent by adhering to atheism. They’ve just chosen one leap of faith over another. And yet many of us have not enough perspective on our own life nor objectivity in our thinking to acknowledge that, however you live, it makes more sense to work off of a tried model than make everything up for the first...
...taste of Eternal China, take a look at the Jinghai Temple today. Despite generations of official atheism and the wholesale destruction of temples and feudal beliefs, two dozen elderly women in floppy blouses and polyester pants cheerfully descend on the holy site, praying to Tianfei and the East Sea Dragon God. They shake their clasped hands in passionate devotion, bow their heads low before the celestial statues and burn copious quantities of incense. They pray that the sea won't turn on them, that their fishermen husbands won't be drowned, that their houses won't be wrecked by typhoons...
...interest in the story of Abraham and Isaac traces back to the early 1970s, when Weil’s only son was killed by a tractor. Shaped by major events of war and loss, many of his images display a need for answers despite his asserted atheism. The painting titled “The Ram in the Thicket” shows a ram walking heedlessly into a thicket that will ultimately lead to its destruction. The bright colors present a false facade of serenity. Happy-faced yellows and sea green create a lovely effect while obscuring the underlying tensions within...
...country ruled by a Communist Party that professes atheism and harbors deep suspicions of foreigners, it might be logical to assume that Goodspeed would be put on the next plane home. But her actions are no secret?a quasi-government agency placed her at the school, and her methods violate no rules. She is but one of thousands of foreign missionaries in China, some of whom work openly with government support, others illegally and on the sly. A brutal murder last week of a Christian teacher drew attention to the numbers of such workers throughout the country (see accompanying story...