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What horror! There are always folk, especially in puritan America, who think pleasure is an unworthy goal of art. Academe is full of ideological nerds who can't look at a Matisse still life without planning an essay on the gender division of the work force in the Nice fruit market; how about The Commodified Fig: Reification As Metaphor in Matisse...
...separation" the Founding Fathers built between church and state is one of the best defenses freedom has ever had. Or have we already forgotten why the Founding Fathers put it up? They had seen enough religious intolerance in the colonies: Quaker women were burned at the stake in Puritan Massachusetts; Virginians could be jailed for denying the Bible's authority. They knew Europe had terribly disfigured itself in a religious war recalled now only by its duration -- 30 years. No wonder John Adams once described the Judeo-Christian tradition as "the most bloody religion that ever existed," and that...
Schools were cheaper in the old days. In 1639 a Puritan preacher gave half his estate and $400 worth of books to a nameless nine-student school; the place was named for the donor: John Harvard...
Needless to say, the sort of pluralism represented by the Ministry--where all religions are treated equally--is a far cry from the days of Puritan monotheism...
Religion concentrator Rachel L. Burger '92, like many students in the field, has a dual concentration--in her case, religion and women's studies, a combination that would probably astonish Harvard's Puritan founders...