Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great problem of the modern church. It means "Protestants worrying about Catholics' playing bingo or electing a President, and Catholics worrying about artificial contraception in a world faced with a population explosion. It means "every disproportionate concern with the minutiae of religious observance, ecclesiastical organization and sectarian tradition at a time when a whole generation is passing through a world revolution...
Paul A. Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor in the Harvard Law School, commented yesterday that the Maryland and Pennsylvania cases now coming up present the issue in "more meaningful form" than did the New York case, since the Bible and Lord's Prayer are more clearly sectarian than was the "relatively innocuous" prayer composed by the New York Regents...
...Board of Regents' prayer was sectarian. It stated or implied four dogmas that form the basis for a well-defined doctrine: first, that a "God" exists ; secondly, that there is only one such "God"; that this "God" was the "God" creator hears of such the prayers universe; and and can lastly, intercede that in human affairs to answer them. Here is an unambiguously stated credo for a sect that, no matter how large and inclusive it be, is still only a sect whose doctrine is not accept able...
Accepting the premise that the prayer was sectarian, the schools' use of it jeopardized the students' right to freedom of religion. To a child, the school is the fountain of knowledge and source of authority. If the school favors or encourages a practice or belief, the child must make the tacit assumption that such schools' use practice of or such a belief is prayer is a "right." Thus misuse of the its position of authority and fosters, even in the nonparticipating child, a faith in the Tightness of the prayer...
...strengthen a religious school, but this support would not be tantamount to establishing a national religion, he said. Besides, "there are already so many ways in which we aid religious institutions today," such as churches' exemption from federal taxation and the availability of G.I. Bill scholarships to students at sectarian schools...