Word: beliefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must be remembered that the present disturbance results from the same intransigence that has created numerous disturbances in the past. We support the student strike, not simply because of Thursday's police action, but out of a belief that the university's policy-making process must be restructured. This belief is bolstered by a new development: violation by the university of its agreement to establish a meaningful Afro-American Studies program...
...draft law currently limits the combat-exempt status of a conscientious objector to one "who, by reason of religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form." Virtually all draft boards have interpreted those words to mean that 1) a draftee's opposition cannot be the product of a merely personal moral code, and 2) his opposition must be directed against all wars, not one specific conflict like Viet Nam. Last week both of those assumptions were declared unconstitutional by Charles Edward Wyzanski, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts...
...change makes sound religious sense. To the believing Christian, death is a moment not of annihilation but of resurrection, when a soul's turbulent earthly journey comes to a happy end in eternal life. American Protestant funeral rites traditionally reflected this belief in such comfortable old favorites as the 23rd Psalm ("The Lord is my Shepherd") and the promises of Jesus ("I am the Resurrection and the Life"), at least until the more unctuous funeral-parlor euphemisms began to avoid any confrontation at all with the idea of death. Roman Catholic rites, on the other hand, were infected...
...16th century mystic Sebastian Franck. Appalled by the cruelties men worked upon one another in the name of religion during the Reformation, Franck wrote: "Whoever looks at mankind seriously may break his heart with weeping." Then he added: "We are all laughingstocks, fables and carnival farces before God." Formal belief in God seems to have no part in Vonnegut's philosophy, though in Slaughterhouse-Five he does suggest that the story of the Crucifixion would be more appealing if Jesus had been not the Son of God but a nobody. Few modern writers have borne witness against inhumanity with...
...find myself in the particularly galling position of sharing a belief, as an independent thinker, with a group. The belief is the immorality of ROTC and the group is SDS. The latest move on the part of SDS has left me in a quandry. On the one hand, I support the very issues which prompted the occupation of University Hall and I feel compelled as a "supposedly" moral, rational member of our fluid society to cast my vote in favor of the removal of ROTC from its present status on campus. And yet I am paralyzed by a desire...