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HARVEY COX, professor at the Harvard Divinity School, Baptist minister and author of The Secular City...
...between ourselves and our God, and the politicians would be over there-and we'd never get the two mixed up . . . In America, faith is personal and honest and uncorrupted by political interference." As the crowd leaped up to applaud once again, Mondale added a kind of secular amen: "May it always be that...
There are elements of absurdity in such a controversy, and yet it derives quite directly from a broader question that is not absurd at all: When does human life begin? At the moment of conception, say many conservatives, both religious and secular. The Rev. Donald McCarthy, of the Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral Research and Education Center in St. Louis, argued sweepingly before the congressional hearings that there is "no evidence of a threshold, a starting point other than fertilization itself, for the beginning of human nature." This is a standard argument against abortion, but McCarthy used it to endow...
...pollution could be reduced, as in California; government could be decentralized, as in West Germany. But as T.S. Eliot once wrote, "Between the idea/ And the reality,/ Between the motion/ And the act/ Falls the Shadow." In Mexico City, there is the shadow of ideology, both religious and secular, the shadow of corruption, the shadow of inertia-and always the problems growing faster than the solutions...
...Jews from about 100 countries speaking 70 languages. Religious-minded and often untrained, the newly arrived Sephardic immigrants (including 260,000 from Morocco, 120,000 from Iraq and 50,000 from Yemen between 1948 and 1958) found that their new home had been built on the principles of secular Zionism. Israel's schools, its bureaucracy, its kibbutzim had all been set in place by Europeans...