Word: findings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failings and our apostasy--for who is to determine what is failing and what is apostasy but ourselves, who create God? An eclectic mind which does not wish to be tied down to dictated beliefs but which wishes still to keep the forms of religion will find in this kind of "Presence" just the kind of God for his every need--except that of his existential fulfillment. Even the non-believers do not wish to reject all possibility of God, for this too imposes restrictions upon their habits of thought. With the possibility that a God may exist always within...
There is a place for the Catholic at Harvard, and there are many Catholics trying to find it. But not without risks. The basic mathematics concerning loss of faith scares some, shocks others, but we mentioned the lack of finality in our figures--and especially in this particular set--due to the small numbers and also to the uncertain effect of time. If asked by some Catholic we didn't know whether he should come to Harvard we would have no ready reply--it's too individual a matter
Reasons for this difference in attrition rates are not difficult to find, but it is nigh impossible to find a single explanation suitable for all cases. Catholics and Episcopalians have, of course, much more to bind them to their faith than Protestants with a weaker liturgical tradition which occupies a smaller part of their time. Several Episcopal students have attended the Congregational services in Mem Church and have returned praising the sermon, but shuddering at the "aridness" of the service. Those Anglicans who change their religion generally convert to Roman Catholicism, keeping the service but changing the philosophy...
...very great prophet or teacher, much as the Mohammedans accepted Mohammed." (45 per cent regarded him as divine, 40 per cent as a great prophet). Similarly when asked about sexual practices which except for birth control are regarded as evil in all Western religions, those who did not find them objectionable on religious grounds far outweighed those who did object to them. (A warning: the poll defined opposition on religious grounds as "objectionable...because of beliefs about God's commandments." This excludes secular morality, on which grounds one would suspect many more would have objected.) The most surprising result...
...this is fine for encouraging students to develop an independent religion for themselves in which they can find fulfillment and self-transcendence, the criterion which all meaningful religions must fulfill. And if the religion which students have found for themselves...