Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid the controversy over his use of CIA money, Safran and some of his supporters asserted that attacks on the Egyptian-born Jew had more to do with his religion and sympathies to Israel than with any purported wrongdoing...
...Harvard culture shock caused Melendez to re-evaluate a whole series of beliefs and values that had become intuitive in the almost homogeneous world of his childhood. "By the time I came to college I thought I was pretty secure in what my religion was about," Melendez says. "But since I've been at Harvard I've just been hit with the most wonderful challenges to what I believe...
Brian says of his religion, "I'm comfortable enough with it now that I can walk off into the Christian community and feel like a part of it, but still be sort of a thorn in the side of mainstream Christianity because I accept it in the context of this liberal, intellectual tradition...
Melendez continues, "There's a message that needs to be brought from the academic community to the Christian community which is that you should celebrate your religion in the tradition of the larger pluralistic culture which we're a part, rather than celebrate it as a crusade against the evil that dwells in everything that you're not a part...
Melendez maintains a healthy self-confidence about his professional prospects even as he continues to question his identity and religion. But he also professes to have tempered his desire to make it to the White House--a desire that dates from his discovery of John F. Kennedy at age 8. One current career ideal is to be an intellectual/politician in the Winston Churchill/Daniel Patrick Moynihan mode...