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...Modernizing Morality Nancy Gibbs nicely delineated the different kinds of sins that plague our society [March 24]. Believers and nonbelievers have a moral duty to do what is right, an obligation that stems not wholly from religion but more from a universal moral law. There is a higher voice that speaks to all of us every time we commit a deed that is contrary to our place in the world. Why not do the best we can while we are here on earth? John J. Pino, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania...
...Just then, a local election official called with news: no political party could hold a meeting near a temple, since the brand-new draft constitution separates church and state, much as the U.S.'s does. The party organizer argued that the choice of venue had nothing to do with religion and everything to do with the temple's nice lawn and handy power outlets. But a rule's a rule, so campaign workers tore down the tent and moved the meeting to a dusty, half-built hotel nearby. "It's all new to us," says volunteer party worker Yeshey Tenzing...
...young girl, he was a young boy, and I had no boyfriend, so I would just imagine he was my boyfriend. When I discovered him, I loved everything about him. His youth, his beauty, his language, his irreverence, his spiritual quest that had nothing to do with religion, the way he modernized poetry, everything...
Bowman, who is working on a graduate degree in peace studies by day, sees comedy as akin to a Gandhian exercise in passive resistance. It's a kind of intellectual sit-in - "a nonviolent act that can cause a change in public awareness." An atheist whose skepticism of organized religion was honed growing up during Ireland's Troubles, Bowman nonetheless claims his Guantánamo show is deeply Christian. It stands up "for American values, and for Christian values," he says. "Guantánamo Bay is profoundly un-Christian. I'm simply doing what Jesus did during his life: going...
...Officials in Rome have been heartened over the past two weeks with news of the first Catholic church opening in Doha, Qatar, and negotiations underway to potentially build one in Saudi Arabia. Still, Church officials say that the question of religious freedom must ultimately also mean freedom to change religion, and note that some Muslims insist that conversion from Islam is apostate, and punishable by death. In 2006, Abdul Rahman, an Afghan convert to Christianity, fled his native country after death threats and arrived in Rome, where he received political asylum from the Italian government and the support...