Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Earth. All the world's a college campus, and practically every philosophy is in the pillory in this bizarre novel about a boy who aspires to become the messiah of a new religion...
Equally combustible is a Maryland high-court ruling that voided state grants for nonreligious facilities at three religious colleges. The court saw in the practice an unconstitutional "establishment of religion," thus casting grave doubt on similar federal support for church colleges and parochial schools. Even more combustible is Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Haire's challenge of tax exemption for churches, which the Maryland court unanimously rejected...
Jewnitarian Religion? In the current issue of the Conservative United Synagogue Review, Buffalo's Rabbi Isaac Klein affirms the "central and normative role of Halakah in Judaism" but argues that Jewish law "was never intended to be frozen" and "must grow to meet new situations." In fact, as Rabbi Klein points out, Halakah has been significantly modified over the centuries, by such sages as Maimonides and Joseph Karo, in order to adapt the written Talmud to the requirements of everyday life. The Conservative branch of Judaism considers Halakah of divine origin but believes in adapting it to the times...
...down of Halakah as "the Gallup-poll approach to Judaism"-making the law conform to practice and thus, for example, permitting the eating of nonkosher food on the ground that roughly 60% of all Jews do not observe dietary rules anyway. Such relaxation, they believe, would create a "Jewnitarian" religion...
Scientific Skepticism. At the subterranean level, the book deals with moral issues that seem remote from spydom's amoral domain. As a schoolboy, Roper applied scientific skepticism to religion. "Does Christ reside in the molecules themselves," he asked, pondering the Eucharist, "or only in the molecules organized into bread?" Later, war service destroyed both his worlds, religion and science: "What's the point of fighting if we don't believe that one way of life is better than another...