Word: religion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Derek C. Araujo '99, president of the Harvard Secular Society, explained, "like the skeptics, the Secular Society is interested in critical thinking. We regard uncritically accepted ideas of the paranormal to be similar to those of religion. We were interested in what Mr. Nisbet had to say about the potentially harmful effects...
...prominent rejoinder to this stance is that religious beliefs have no place in public life--or, at least, they ought not to be imposed on others through legislation. It is difficult to disregard, however, the fact that many Americans consider the Bible an infallible moral guide. For these people, religion informs all decisions--even those relating to politics. To require a public life devoid of religious belief, then, is to effect a dangerously bifurcated citizenry, wanting but unable to communicate what is most dear and fundamental to them in their deliberations regarding the public good...
...most prudent opposition to religious condemnation of homosexuality, then, is not to impugn religion's place in public discourse, but to debate the legitimacy of interpreting the Bible to this end. Religious reasoning against homosexuality should not be cast aside as easily as has become common practice--rather, it must be examined and energetically engaged. Homosexuality might also be opposed cogently by traditionalists. To the suggestion that homosexuality ought to be approved and embraced, the starchy traditionalist might reasonably reply: "Thanks, but heterosexuality as the sole acceptable form of sexual expression has been working out tolerably well over the past...
...master of Lowell House, is currently on a one-year leave as professor of comparative religion and Indian studies while she writes a book on religion in America. She is also creator and director of the Harvard-based Pluralism Project which studies religious diversity...
...wonderful thing about multimedia is that there's people in it--people actually speaking [about their religion,] Muslims speaking about being Muslims, for example," she said. "Books don't necessarily have that...