Word: creedes
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...Golding’s argument jars common sense. The wise voter must consider the candidate as an individual and with specific regard to public issues. Secondly, there are immense differences in individual beliefs among adherents of any religion, and to exclude any person on the general basis of his creed would be irrational and manifestly unfair, whatever the spurious generalization uttered to explain the policy. Golding is right that a person may legally vote as he wishes on any basis he chooses and may say so. But doing so on the basis of a candidate’s creed would...
...world. I look forward to student and faculty discussion in the weeks ahead, but in the meantime let me advance five reasons I think “reason and faith” is a great idea for general education no matter what your field of study, future profession, or creed...
...Osteen's version, while it abandons part of that magical thinking, may strike some as self-centered rather than God centered. But American Protestantism is a dynamic faith. Caldwell's version reminds us that there is no reason a giving God could not invest even an awkward and needy creed with a mature and generous heart. If God does want us to be rich in this life, no doubt it's this richness in spirit that he is most eager for us to acquire...
...GREED IS THE CREED...
...this summer. And those beautiful words kept echoing in my head. “The government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” There is no better definition of democracy. But as our government tries to spread this creed across the world, it keeps encountering the same stumbling block. In Iraq, it seems, “the people” do not exist. There are only competing groups who lack faith in each other and, more crucially, in their central authority. What good are elections or constitutions without this...