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...many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers. I find that an old friend of mine in the city, once a strident atheist and rationalist, is getting absorbed in Jewish mysticism; he tells me approvingly that his wife has rejected "Western" medicine and now goes to a medicine man in Chinatown for roots and crystals...
...Blair Wish Project Tony Blair's commitment to a rapprochement of the world's great faiths through interfaith dialogue cannot succeed [June 9]. The world's great religions - and why exclude rationalist humanism from such a dialogue, when it takes as much faith to be an atheist as it does to believe in a deity? - may possibly have the common denominator of desiring the charitable amelioration of the human condition, but that is where the commonality ends. The various belief systems are committed to truth claims which are not logically compatible. Incommensurability of theory necessarily leads to incompatibility in practice...
...mathematics professor at the University of Maryland). This time there's no bloodletting, partly because Meera and Dev are both Hindu, meaning that a hasty marriage can be arranged. It's India, 1955, after all - still an ultraconservative country. Even Meera's bullying dad Rajinder, a hard-line atheist and ostensibly a progressive who quotes John Stuart Mill and owns a company that publishes pamphlets about India's nascent freedom struggle, encourages the union. But the consequences for Meera, enacted over a quarter-century - and some 450 densely imagined if often plodding pages of her diaristic flashbacks - are unhappy indeed...
...fact, the Democratic Party seized on the Freedom's Watch ads, which Davis did not control. In a radio spot, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee attacked Davis for being supported by Sheldon Adelson, a casino tycoon who funds Freedom's Watch, calling Adelson "one of Atheist China's top American business partners." Along with other American casino companies, Adelson operates resorts in Macau, just outside Hong Kong...
...debate featured Dinesh D’Souza, the conservative Roman Catholic writer and speaker, who went head-to-head with preacher-turned-atheist Dan Barker for roughly two hours of discussion on topics ranging from the relationship between science and religion to the ethics of Christianity. Students from the Harvard Secular Society and the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship collaborated to write the questions...