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...never clear why. As for abolition, he seemingly undergoes a quasi-religious conversion on the prairie, praying aloud for a friend's dying child while the friend's loyal servant -- the one black in the 3 hr. 20 min. epic -- fetches water. But Lincoln, who has sounded like an atheist until then, doesn't explain what he felt...
...agree, get along, and cope. Principle, religious conviction, and conscience should all be discarded if they lead to futile and irresolvable dilemmas. In the abortion stalemate, for example, pragmatism tells pro-lifers to throw out their religious objections to abortion because these arguments are never going to convince any atheist pro-choice feminist to change his mind. And if religious convictions, categorical principles, and tortured consciences happen to go the way of dinosaurs, good riddance: Then it would be easier to get along...
...imagine being brought up by parents even more confused; one is obsessed with atheist fiction and the other, with the Bible. One parent forbids you to watch television because it takes away "your intelligence and your concentration," and the other lets you sneak out of the house in the afternoon to watch television at a friend's house...
...prayer in the classroom arouses even greater passions. If public schools allow teachers to lead students in prayer, it looks very much like an endorsement of religion, and it is hard to imagine that a child would not feel pressured into joining in. Particularly in deeply religious communities, atheist and agnostic families are often afraid to protest. "In many areas no one complains when the church starts creeping into public life," says Jay Jacobson, executive director of the Arkansas affiliate of the ACLU. "We get calls at the beginning of the school year against a generic prayer at football games...