Word: irreligion
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...opposed to forcing it upon another. Religious liberty does not mean that interest in religion is extinguished. A national college in America must be tolerant. In all colleges students should be taught to respect the forms of religion as well as religion itself. A fruitful source of irreligion is mutual denunciation among sects. Nobody knows how to teach morality effectively without religion. In the classroom the teachers can demonstrate that science is creating a very spiritual idea of God, and that there is no real incompatibility between religion and science...
...that of which they knew nothing, and having used their war-worn phrases, passed them on to the Bungtown Clarion and sheets of a like stamp which flourish on the plains of Texas. According to this highly tinted fiction, Harvard is a hot-bed of incipient Nihilism and irreligion. Let us look at the question of irreligion for a moment. The statement on its face is a reproach, if not an insult, to the parents and friends of every Harvard student. For by their advice he has been led, not metaphorically speaking, to enter the den of thieves...
...signs of "religious decadence" at Harvard, and I have never said that I did. Nor do I think that Harvard "is a hot-bed of incipient nihilism, scepticism, lying and irreligion." What I do say and think is this. Compulsory prayers are a positive injury to the religious sentiment of the college. They are a mockery of religion held continually before our eyes. They create disrespect for religion and furnish the readiest and most fertile subject for the expression of that disrespect. I do not say that irreligion is any more prevalent at Harvard than elsewhere, but I do believe...
...read between the lines even in "his excitement." Nor is "his anger" aroused at a statement which bears upon its face its utter falsity. Any Harvard student who is willing to subscribe to a declaration that his college is a hot-bed of incipient nihilism, scepticism, "lying," and irreligion can do so, but it should be upon his own authority, and his statement ought to carry with it only the weight of that authority. The writer of the editorial in question does "conscientiously" deny many of the "facts stated," and declares them to have been the offspring of an ignorant...
...other colleges are troubled with. We refer to the hostile influence of the clergy. Sectarian preachers of all sorts, religions newspapers of every denominational shade, oppose us simply and solely because we are not denominational. It is their contention that the lack of an organic sectarianism here breeds irreligion among the students, binders their moral development, and sends them into the world like Richard, 'half made up.' They show no doubt whatever that we are a set of stubborn scoffers at the faith from a faculty of confirmed infidels to a freshman class of jeering sceptics." It is not many...