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...secular age, though, we needn't show obeisance to other cultures. So no mention of any days of the week, please, and all months are they that must not be named - until that lovely, unimpeachably secular holiday, Labor...
...fundamental principles of religious thought, even though the general education report stresses that students are affected by religion and should think critically about it. As the report states, “These courses are not prescriptive: their aim is to help students understand the interplay between religious and secular institutions, practices, and ideas.” This apparent exclusion of the basic principles of religion from the reason and faith requirement makes it seem that the general education report is holding religion to a different standard than the other fields. Instead of teaching students religious principles, reason and faith courses...
Perhaps the required study of religion has no place at a secular university. But religion courses aren’t designed to convince or indoctrinate. Their purpose is to explore an academic discipline that receives little or no treatment at Harvard. Studying religion involves coping with unanswerable questions, confronting humanity’s limitations, and thinking beyond oneself. No literature or science course can teach these skills. And regardless of whether students are atheist or devout, thinking about religion in an academic environment expands their view of the world and opens their minds to a new and different...
...Life Science,” and “Physical Science.” The report says that knowledge of these areas is essential to citizenship. One student questioned if “Reason and Faith” should be taught at a secular university. In response to student concerns that the report didn’t give sufficient attention to science and math, Simmons said, “It’s important...to think not only about the practical details of the science, but also the implications of the science.” UC Student Activities Committee Vice...
...conflicts that are commonly attributed to it. Many people in Ireland insist that the Ulster conflict is about British rule versus Irish unification, not about Protestantism versus Catholicism. And among the Islam-aligned forces with which our country is currently entangled, Saddam Hussein’s Baathism is more secular and nationalist than it is religious. Whether or not religion is a major force is a question best left to our colleagues in history, government, and area studies, in the context of the broadest possible study of world affairs. This empirical issue should not be prejudged in the categories...