Word: belief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While some unscrupulous people take advantage of others' belief in God, not all religion is bad, corrupt, hypocritical. And not all ministers, rabbis and priests are intolerant or harmful...
...premise of our society is the right to privacy and personal belief. This is not to say that religion should be taught as a science in this secular world. We're living in a secular world, which all too often seems to cater to atheism and agnosticism. While those fundamentalists who proselytize mercilessly and are violently intolerant are wrong, not all religion should be weeded out of our society. There is plenty of room in the middle ground...
...Belief or disbelief in God profoundly affects the way people look at the world, and the validity of points of view deserves to be recognized...
...measure reached the President's desk last week, he treated it as not ready for prime time. He signed the bill without a complement of aides and legislators crowding around him. Why none of the hoopla that sometimes accompanies such signings? The President, said a spokesman, was signaling his belief that the new law "throws too much money at programs that have a mixed record" of success...
...lessening of Soviet internal repression could alter the U.S. side of the equation. At the heart of American animosity toward the Soviet Union is a revulsion against its internal system, a belief that there is something cruel and unnatural about the relationship between the individual and the state under the precepts of Marx and Lenin. "Gorbachev seems to be rethinking precisely those things that we don't like about the Soviet Union," says Michael Mandelbaum, a Soviet expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. "If glasnost thrives, the place could change in ways that will make it easier...