Word: secular
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...One” but yielded less success because voters opposed gay marriage. However, the debate itself highlighted a problem in the very understanding of civil unions: Marriage itself is a religious institution that is inappropriately included in public law, and thus all marriages should instead be legally defined as secular “civil unions.” Despite the disappointment in Maine, we saw hope’s silhouette once again with Obama’s reaffirmation of his commitment to gay rights during the State of the Union address, in which he promised to repeal the military?...
...derived complex mathematical proofs without any formal education. But Azarya is also the son of the town’s Grand Rebbe, expected to succeed his father as the Hasidim’s spiritual guide. Cass bears witness to Azarya’s agonizing choice between denying the secular world that so engages him or leaving his communal responsibilities and attending MIT—a struggle which informs Cass’s own thinking on religion’s roots and allure. While in the past Cass waits to discover what Azarya will decide, in the present readers wonder whether...
...terms. This sort of framing can highlight sharp distinctions in philosophies, but doesn’t begin to approach the varieties of religious experience—or illusion—in the modern world. For Goldstein and her characters, the world divides into the rational and the irrational, the secular and the religious. There are the academics, who are either free of the superstitious bonds of faith or only subscribe to it for its social utility, and then there are the unenlightened masses. Azarya’s situation is similarly rigid—he must choose between living entirely outside...
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman—famous for blowing things up and testing popular myths on their show “MythBusters”—were honored for their work in propagating humanist values Friday evening by the Harvard Secular Society and the Harvard Humanist Chaplaincy...
...Secular Society’s president Lewis M. Ward ’11 said at the awards ceremony to a packed audience in Memorial Church that the MythBusters duo won the group’s fourth Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism for teaching people not to blindly accept myths on their “incredibly entertaining show...