Word: religion
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Susannah B. Tobin presents an interesting view of religion (Opinion, Feb. 4). She would like us to believe church leaders should play no role in the formation of public policy. In fact, she is even willing to turn against the recent commutation of the death penalty for Darrell Mease because it was given in response to a call from the world's most prominent religious leader, Pope John Paul...
Next comes Tobin's invocation of "moral reversal." I suppose Tobin is arguing that religion should play no role in morality for those who are religious (still a majority of the population, especially in middle America). The implications of such an argument are so absurd they need not be addressed...
Tobin's column is not about separating religion from state recognition. That has already been accomplished. It is about silencing religious viewpoints in our political discourse because she disagrees with their stance on abortion, homosexuality and feminist liberation--even if it means a few more immoral executions of inmates on death row. In other words, I don't like some of the messenger's religious beliefs, so let's ignore the validity of the message. I can't imagine what this philosophy would have done for a religious leader named Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960's. CHRISTOPHER...
Some concentrations--such as women's studies, literature and religion--reported student satisfaction ratings several times those of the lowest performers, like economics and applied math...
Concentrations administered bydegree-conferring committees rather than academicdepartments earned generally higher approvalratings from the classes of 1997 and 1998. Of theconcentrations ranked in the top five by the classof 1998, four--women's studies, literature,folklore and mythology and religion--are committeeconcentrations, which tend to be smaller thantheir departmental counterparts...