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Gomes spoke of arriving here in 1970, at a time when "Harvard had been known for over a century as Godless Harvard...
...through busy Harvard Square many nights of the year and you'll probably see and hear individuals and religious groups proselytizing Harvard students, tourists and anyone else who walks by. I watch these often self-styled visionaries and wonder why they have come. Do they think those associated with "Godless Harvard" are in special need of their help? What they don't know is that although there will always be many people here in spiritual need, religious beliefs and good works do abound at Harvard--sometimes where one least expects them...
According to Nicholi, Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, had a materialistic world-view. He called himself a materialist, a godless medical man and an atheist. Lewis, an Oxford don and author, had a spiritual world-view...
...voters will remember them as the Party of Zipped Pants. Ordinarily, the voters need to sense danger before they get ginned up about politics: you receive a newsletter in the mail from the Committee to Confront the Present Crisis, and it is full of outrages committed by godless Washington pinheads, and your collar heats up, your toupee flies up in the air, your pants fill up with bricks, and you send in a check for $50 to save the country, but there are not so many outrages these days. The economy is humming along, the stock market continues to levitate...
...confusing arena of ideas,rhetoric sometimes takes over where natural reasonmay lead. Gomes, of course, has no problem withrhetoric. His self-assured air combined and deepvocal tenor compels few to question his words asanything but gospel. And so, looking upon his fullcongregation on Sundays at Memorial Church, Gomesconcludes that "Godless Harvard" is not Godless atall. He illuminates a backlash to the scientificemphasis on quantification and demystification.Gomes says that the realization that "science hasnot produced a utopia" has buoyed a risingspiritual tide that "makes it easier to preach in1998 than...