Word: liu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter in The Crimson by Ken Y. Liu '98 ("Memorial Church Talk Also 'Front for Christ,'" April 15) the writer said he was upset because he'd attended a free talk given on Sunday by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Memorial Church and felt there should have been some sort of warning on the publicity posters that this was going to be a religious event...
...Didn't Liu sense that the service might have something to do with Jesus when he saw the archbishop wearing a cross around his neck as he proceeded down the aisle? Maybe Liu sensed that people came to worship God when the congregation read aloud from the Psalter. How about the Lord's prayer? That one is a dead give away: "Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name...
...Maybe Liu could have looked to the front of the church to see the cross displayed proudly for all to see. Or he could have noticed a slight religious bias during the prayers or confession of sins...
...sermon (it's not listed as a "free talk" in the service program) comes at the end of the service and always draws upon a passage from the Bible. Last Sunday, the sermon cited Genesis 28:17 for its title, "How awful is this place!" If Liu had listened at all to the lesson, he would have noticed the story concerned God's promises to Jacob. In fact, God talks directly to Jacob: "Know that I am with you and will keep you wherever you go...for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised...
...Liu's audacious claim that "many in the audience" were "oblivious to the fact that Jesus was being sneaked in on them" neither confirms his utter lack rudimentary deductive logic, nor expresses his own pathetic attempt to find something about religion he can cry about. Perhaps Liu is the clear minded atheist who sees right through the Church's plot to convert an "unsuspecting audience" to Christianity. It might not have occurred to Liu that people go to church for the explicit reason of worshiping God. Some people do believe in that stuff, you know. If Liu does not want...