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Thankfully, this is not the "godless Harvard" that Increase Mather, Class of 1656, feared it had become. Says Sonderegger: "It's very easy to believe the 'godless Harvard' myth if you never talk about religion and never take the time to find out if you know someone who is religious...
...faithful, a true believer in a god that failed. "History will absolve me," he proclaimed at the start of his revolution, and he believes it will absolve him still. John Paul II is equally certain that his religion will one day soon sweep away even this last vestige of godless communism...
Some people think of Bill Gates as a godless, misanthropic, penny-pinching monopolizer. But not me. And I'm not talking about that airplane he bought himself last week, either. You might be surprised to learn that the Bill Gates I know is bailing out the Web, and possibly enriching countless struggling electronic publishers...
...corporate downsizing, but who would have thought that in the '90s, everything else would get downsized too? The country is so short on big things--heroes, villains, conflicts--that we've had to inflate little things and pretend they're big. Our statesmen used to revile Hitler, Mussolini, the godless Reds--large and sinister enemies who wanted to take over the world. Now the the focus of evil in American life is...the tobacco industry. The fellows who make cigarettes may be--indeed are--mendacious, but they do produce a legal product that earlier generations found alternately pleasurable and obnoxious...
...campaign against the show mounted by conservative Catholics prompted the priest to come forward. Cain argues that the show's critics don't recognize that Nothing Sacred is about one priest's search for God. He claims that the attacks, branding the show's two Jewish executive producers "Godless," are anti-Semitic. As of last week, about eight sponsors had begged off. For now, ABC and Disney are standing behind the show, but if the ratings don't improve, last rites may have to be administered. Says producer David Manson: "We all understand that in the end this show...