Word: christly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author might be interested to know that we have several complaints from students about what they regard as the manipulative techniques of the Boston Church of Christ. We hope he would agree that the destructive activity of any religious organization both deserves and requires public scrutiny...
...Christ, Rutger," he says. "You don't look so good. You look really sick...
...English section last week, the section leader asked if anyone believed that Christ actually rose from the dead. Although there were a large number of Catholics and Protestants in the room, the teaching fellow was greeted with muffled silence. Harvard students, for some reason, are embarrassed about religion. And the unease comes to the fore when someone is so thoughtless as to discuss religious beliefs in public...
...this school where diversity is the highest good, religion has a constricted place. That is why the Boston Church of Christ seems so out of place. The church brings religion into the open. Members believe strongly enough to want to share their beliefs--in the Boston Garden or in a Harvard dining hall is a more than fitting place to seek converts...
...Boston Church of Christ takes advantage of the insecurity some people feel here, then the church should be controlled on campus. Harvard, however, should be sure it is acting to safeguard students' rights to make their own choices. Otherwise, efforts against the church might have more to do with Harvard's arrogance, and with its unfortunate feeling that those who talk about religion are just a bit too impolite to be endured...