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...What the "Happy Holidays" crowd didn't realize was that not saying "Merry Christmas" was as annoying to traditionalists as saying it was to non-Christians. The debate had little to do with belief; it was about people's fond, perhaps fanciful, memories of Christmases past...
...very fond of Jack Johnson. I think he came up with his own new style, and he writes really well. I really like a group called Nickel Creek. I think they're brilliant. I'm very fond of this little pop girl, Pink, because she wrote this song, Dear Mr. President. Holy s___, what a song! Whoa. The girl has real talent...
...unctuous—or many people more prone to temper their faith with reason. We wonder if the study of religion on its own terms might not be more helpful in assisting us to understand our “global society,” as the Task Force is fond of calling it, than the particularly Western notion of faith’s interaction with reason. Yesterday, Congressional Quarterly’s Jeff Stein published an excellent piece in The New York Times relating his troubling experience asking every government employee he could—FBI agents, congressmen, and State...
...teachings as children, but religious faith never really took root in their hearts. My mother's own experiences as a bookish, sensitive child growing up in small towns in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas only reinforced this inherited skepticism. Her memories of the Christians who populated her youth were not fond ones. Occasionally, for my benefit, she would recall the sanctimonious preachers who would dismiss three-quarters of the world's people as ignorant heathens doomed to spend the afterlife in eternal damnation - and who in the same breath would insist that the earth and the heavens had been created...
Former headmaster at St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire William Oates ’38 said his fond memories of the program compelled him to attend...