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...Perhaps Finer did not object to the "preaching" religious nature of the event, but instead found questionable that the Living Stones "covertly" sprung the message of the Christian Gospel on "a potentially unsuspecting audience." This implicitly singles out Christianity in the free marketplace of ideas as an idea that should given a warning label exante...
...found the letter by Jonathan J. Finer '98 in Saturday's Crimson ("Winthrop Show Front for Christ," April 12) somewhat disappointing...
...hear the same message at Commencement, and yet I do not greet it with apprehension. It is true, however, that the concert had different aims than would a Commencement speech; Christianity was broached, as Finer correctly points out, and in all likelihood that was the point of the staging of the concert...
Many in the audience, in fact, seemed to have been "inspired," oblivious to the fact that Jesus was being sneaked in on them. I whole-heartedly agree with Jonathan J. Finer '98 (Letter, Apr. 12) that events of the nature of the Living Stones' "free concert" last week and the Archbishop's "free talk" this Sunday should not be such traps for seekers of "free stuff" such...
Granted, the doors weren't locked behind me. Still, one wonders why the planners of this event were not more forthright about its religious nature, instead of covertly springing it upon a potentially unsuspecting audience. --Jonathan J. Finer...