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Congratulations on your excellent coverage of the "New Debate over Jesus' Divinity" [Feb. 27]. It is an old debate. There's nothing new about it, except the circles it is now traveling in. When it is put to rest, we will rediscover the human Jesus who was lost in abstract theological gymnastics. Jesus will then be a model for our living, which the earliest Christians meant him to be. The notion of Jesus as God is a base form of idolatry that makes religion a form of magic, rather than an attempt to address real, human concerns...
...never come to a vote on the House floor. The Senate Committee on Finance recently passed this version of tax credit as an amendment to the wool tariff bill, and it awaits scheduling for the Senate floor. The student aid bill has been reported out of the Human Resources Committee, and as soon as the debate on the Panama Canal treaty is finished--maybe in a week or two--the student aid bill will race the tax credit to the Senate, with each side hoping to gain the advantage of getting the first vote...
...evolved in the late '60s and early '70s, brought into full view a whole slew of problems and injustices, of which both men and women are the victims. Some seem relatively straight-forward, such as job discrimination; some were enormously complex, such as the various issues revolving around human sexuality. Unfortunately, as Gunther's article suggests, the latter type is being milked for all it is worth in the commercial world...
According to Gunther, the new literature about human sexuality--largely generated, if indirectly, by the women's movement--paints an unfairly grim picture of men as savage, self-centered sexual beings...
...would argue that what is written in the Hite Report or The Joy of Lesbian Sex is of relatively little importance. What is important is that the feminists' desire for sexual equality has cleared the way for a great deal of open discussion about human sexuality, which can only be a healthy development...