Word: religion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After he called organized religion a "crutch" and "a sham" in a recent interview with Playboy, and then continued to say that he would like to be reincarnated as a 38 DD bra, his approval ratings dropped 19 points overnight. His support among women dropped to its lowest levels ever...
...several venues, Ventura defended remarks he made about organized religion, which, in the Playboy interview he said was a "sham...
...said that in characterizing people who follow an organized religion "weak-minded," "there's not necessarily a bad connotation to being weak-minded." He said that people seeking sanctuary in a faith can find peace. "But I generally don't need it," he said...
This has been a week for kiosks and basic morality, morality grand and misjudged and morality small but significant. First, the latest from the Out of Town News kiosk: Religion has been in forefront of coverage in both Massachusetts and New York without much good reason. New York mayor Rudy "It's not art if I can do it" Guiliani has withdrawn funding from the Brooklyn Museum of Art exhibit "Sensation" because he's offended by a portrait of the Virgin Mary stained with elephant dung and surrounded by a collage of fragments from porn magazines. The First Amendment...
...troubling that a political leader should mix religion with the question of public funding for an art exhibit and equally worrisome that a religious leader should accuse a nominee of anti-Catholicism on non-existent evidence, prompting the invention of likewise trivial controversy. These efforts, however passionate, are clearly mistaken. Perhaps the Mayor and the Cardinal could put their time to better use by coming to campus and regulating what could be called Godless Harvard's most central belief system: electronic mail...