Word: religion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They've sort of been in their prayer rooms but now they are beginning to come out of the closet," says Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. "I've thought for sometime religion would become a greater part of the campus because of the increase in the number of Christian groups on campus...
Gone are the good old days when religion was respected in America. After all, no one in America feels comfortable publicly thanking God for his or her success in sports, politics, or show business. Whom can we blame for this but the evil, devious, anti-religious liberals? Though we cannot see, hear or smell them, we know that they must be there--in our government, in our schools and even in our homes. Take the advice of your local conservative accuser: protect yourselves, because they're everywhere...
Some students said that it is not fasting that complicates studying, but the other way around. "This is my religion. This is my priority. My exams come second," Marwah Abdallah '00 said...
...answer this question, but many before me have tried. C.S. Lewis devoted an entire book, The Problem of Pain, to it. But one is convinced by Lewis only if one subscribes to his unique, Christian beliefs. Moreover, nearly every religion tries to answer the "problem of pain...
Still, Victor's sense of terror in being unable to distinguish the true from the false is unmistakable. The world of celebrity in Glamorama really is inescapable, not just because Victor is too shallow to comprehend anything beyond it, but because everything--from the public spheres of politics and religion to the private sphere of sex--is part of this world. The plot twists more often than Chubby Checker on speed. Reality alternates with the constructed so often that the constructed becomes real: "everything is altered... everyone will believe this". Even the novel itself borrows Jay McInerney's Alison Poole...