Word: christian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christmas" (News, Dec. 9), Tom Flynn says, "If Jesus Christ is not your savior, Christmas is not your holiday." Clearly, Jesus Christ is not Flynn's savior, and his faith is his own business. But he has no right to attack one of the most sacred days of the Christian faith as "an elaborately sustained parental lie." He asserts that the belief in Santa Claus is detrimental to children's moral and religious development...
Religious beliefs became an issue in King's campaign after an election commission official sent an e-mail message to members of Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship seeking prayers for King and Driskell and asserting that "God's hand [was] directing them...
Christmas has come to Harvard, and once again its arrival is accompanied by sickening hypocrisy. Decorated fir trees, green wreaths and red ribbons are Christmas decorations, not non-sectarian seasonal garnishes. Those in the Christian majority can claim otherwise until they're blue in the face, but they're not convincing any-one. Even if the trees and wreaths have no direct religious significance, they are cultural banners of a religious celebration--a celebration not shared by everyone...
...Christian majority permitted by the administration to transform common residential areas, like dining halls and entry-ways, into out-posts of Christmas cheer...
...this hypocrisy best resolved? The answer is certainly not the distribution of a few token menorahs and Kwanzaa lights. The notion that December is the month for religious expression is Christian in origin. The most important holidays of other religious fall at other times during the year. And, it would be impractical for the College to force House Masters and Committees to stage religious displays in honor of each and every holiday...