Word: faithful
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...speeches, but his presidency has been far from a “tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic,” as the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr. hysterically claimed. In fact, Bush has offered little more than rhetorical support to right-wing causes. Opening government funding to faith-based charities—probably Bush’s most dramatic pro-religion action—hardly marks a biblical deluge...
...atheists, regarding then as godless loose cannons without any grounded sense of morality. (Even in 2002, the Pew Center found that the corresponding number for Muslims was only 29 percent.) This prejudice lets politicians like Mitt Romney say, “We need a person of faith to run this country” and not receive even a mummer of criticism for establishing a theism litmus test. In fact, his statement is almost necessarily true, because, even though most voters wouldn’t disqualify a gay, black, or female presidential candidate, only 37 percent would vote for an atheist...
...rainy country doing academic work in a quirky, ancient institution,” the possibility of his having gotten a “raw deal” never arose; the small annoyances associated with Oxford have not impacted his experience. He indicated, in an e-mail, a faith in the ability of high-achieving university students to maintain a balanced perspective: “When the guy who sat on the plane next to you coming here is a [Rhodes] scholar from Zimbabwe, it’s hard to complain about a stipend that lets you travel as well...
Ideally, one’s time at Harvard should cultivate the same sense of openness and promise, not of duty drained of conviction. A favorable Harvard admissions decision, though the product of a less competitive application process, symbolizes a similar faith in a student’s ability to seize available opportunities—one that should be declined if it cannot be respected...
...recent years, the uneasy tension between science and faith has escalated into a full-out war of attrition.It began with the debates over teaching creationism and evolutionary theory in the early 1990s, and 9/11 further opened the door for accusations about the harm religion and fundamentalism can cause. The ongoing debate over intelligent design is only the latest battlefield in this increasingly contentious culture war. Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris have introduced a new level of vehemence to the attacks on religion with their best-selling anti-religion polemics, which are at least as extreme as a hellfire and brimstone...