Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mechanical metaphor was prevalent during the Industrial Revolution. As America was celebrating the 100th anniversary of the document, James Russell Lowell observed, "After our Constitution got fairly into working order, it really seemed as if we had invented a machine that would go of itself, and this begot a faith in our luck...
...humanism that, despite the gaudy bleatings of today's religious right, was their common moral root. Thus the calm, measured, lucid interior of Jefferson's Rotunda, the focus of his "academical village" (the University of Virginia), declares the value of reason and persuades us that humane analysis, not blind faith, is the true measure of a decent society. We sentimentalize Jefferson and his colleagues if we suppose they were not elitists. His buildings, like other major expressions of design in the new Republic, insist that elites matter and are valuable. They imply that the democratic task is not to level...
...growing challenge to separation comes from "accommodationist" thinkers, who contend that the Government should recognize religion's role in society without favoring any one faith. A prime exponent is Rehnquist. In a blistering 1985 dissent (before he became Chief Justice), he declared that the Supreme Court's implementation of strict separation for the past 40 years has "no historical foundation." Similar points are made by Reagan Cabinet Members Edwin Meese and William Bennett, by conservative Protestants and, more mildly, by Roman Catholic leaders...
...include many Jewish lobbies and the National Council of Churches. The 14.6 million-member Southern Baptist Convention, the country's largest Protestant body, deeply split on the issue, is represented in Washington by the proseparation Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs. Its leader, the Rev. James Dunn, says true faith is cheapened by "proclamation of God as the national mascot...
...human range. The logic of Athens, the fortitude of London, the grace of Paris -- a city for every facet of the mind. He would have you connect travel with an appreciation of the past as well. In Jerusalem recently, he walked the Old City, brushing thousands of years of faith and murder. He would like you to see yourself as history, to wonder what you would have shouted, or at whom, as Jesus struggled up the Via Dolorosa. He hopes that you will husband your own past too. The past means possibility...