Word: faiths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jews." The father, on the other hand, lives in northern New Jersey, where "temples, Hebrew schools and extrareligious facilities abound." Citing C. Bezalel Sherman's The Jew Within American Society, Judge Consodine, himself a Catholic, decided that the children's Idaho environment might well undermine their faith...
...Angeles Association of Laymen issued a manifesto declaring: "We simply reject Pope Paul's ban on birth control and ask all mature Catholics to do the same. We will not 'leave the church.' We will not be thrown out. We are Catholics because of our faith and our hope and our love, together in community. And nothing except our own conscious decision can change that...
...lead to a new and healthier concept of what authority is. The church of the Bible, they argue, was not an authoritarian state but a community of shared decisions, which were not made by the hierarchy alone. Without denying that the church needs a Pope as the symbol of faith, some theologians would argue that there ought to be several levels of teaching authority. On a question of marital morality like birth control, the conscience of the church should be formed by those who face the question in their daily lives-the married laymen. In any case, no real authority...
...commitment that will eventually crumble. "At our limits a God appears, or something that serves his turn," says Cioran, who is at once an unbeliever and a profoundly religious man. "I fall back on God, if only out of a desire to trample my doubts underfoot." Yet Cioran rejects faith as just another self-deception. "I write to rid myself of my obsessions, of my anguish," he says. "But I believe in nothing...
Confronting futility, Cioran neither yields to the absurd nor makes a sudden leap to faith. Instead, he adopts a perilous, intentionally irrational balance designed to sever the roots of reason. Since all life is futility, he contends, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational act of all. For once man sees through his fictions, there can .be no rational basis for living, a judgment that recalls Camus' point: the only philosophical question is suicide. "I subsist and act insofar as I am a raving maniac," Cioran writes. "It is by undermining the idea of reason...