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Scholars who listened to Breyer explain his theory said his reasoning closely resembled theories that go under other names...
...always turned to a God to explain the unexplainable. Because of religion's ubiquity, it does seem as if there is a God gene in many human beings. Organized religion, however, is now similar to a political bureaucracy that pulls out all the stops to perpetuate itself. The clergy has become a ruling class that arbitrarily makes decrees significantly affecting people's lives. Church leaders rule with fear as well as love. Small children are indoctrinated mercilessly. So I wonder whether, in the fundamentalist denominations, religious belief is caused by the God gene or just good old-fashioned coercion...
...fighting to get back on offense, and in the conference room on Air Force One, he thought he had finally found a way. Nine days earlier, at his convention, Kerry had said he would never mislead the country into war, and so Bush would now force him to explain his vote authorizing it. "I'm going to keep after him," Bush told aides, "until he answers...
...They also worked on parrying Kerry's thrusts. "You can't respond to each attack or you'd look defensive, so we worked on picking one, refuting it and then quickly turning to offense," said Hughes. A coming speech on medical liability was shoved aside so that Bush could explain the choices in the race on the economy and terrorism in a way he hadn't in the debate. He would also try to account for his own behavior, hoping a little self-deprecation would even the score. "If you hear all that," he said in the speech, alluding...
...trying to outrun since he slipped past Howard Dean in the primaries finally caught up with him: his position on Iraq was incomprehensible to anybody who wasn't a regular lunch guest at the Council on Foreign Relations, and it was getting more so every time Kerry tried to explain...