Word: religion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning." --William H. Gates...
...much alike that you might confuse their names. These things happened because individuals have become the key force in the market. If individuals decide they want to day-trade funds, it will happen. There are now thousands of specialized funds to suit whims related to things like religion, sports, even astrology. Why not funds just for day traders as well...
...woman's right to choose abortion (which Graham also opposes). And there have been no scandals, financial or sexual, to darken Graham's mission. His sincerity, transparent and convincing, cannot be denied. He is an icon essential to a country in which, for two centuries now, religion has been not the opiate but the poetry of the people. In the U.S., 96% of us believe in God, 90% pray, and 90% believe God loves them, according to Gallup polls. Graham is totally representative of American religious universalism. You don't run for office among us by proclaiming your skepticism...
...spiritual discernment, Graham has ministered to a particular American need: the public testimony of faith. He is the recognized leader of what continues to call itself American evangelical Protestantism, and his life and activities have sustained the self-respect of that vast entity. If there is an indigenous American religion--and I think there is, quite distinct from European Protestantism--then Graham remains its prime emblem...
Harold Bloom, author of The American Religion, most recently published Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human