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Individuals on both sides of the secular-religious spectrum would object to the juxtaposition of terms, Hauser said...
...with the American midterm elections due next month than any real deal. " We are not much concerned with it, " he said. The defiance plays well with al-Maliki's political allies: al-Sadr and other Shi'ite Islamists. But it leaves other groups, including Sunnis, Kurds and secular Iraqis - and not a few observers in Washington - wondering whether the prime minister can stop his country from descending into a total sectarian...
...Harvard it’s considered cooler—and more intellectual—to read Nietzsche than C.S. Lewis, to engage in intellectual discourse grounded in secular thought rather than the religious dimension. Of course, it is incredibly valuable for a religious person, who may not understand how someone can be an atheist, to read great secular thinkers to understand the alternative point of view. And Harvard students get this exposure through the current Core, which requires every student to read secular moral thinkers. But, likewise, atheists who don’t understand how someone can be religious should...
...Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine,” said there was “probably some other factor” that caused the correlation because subjects did not differ in lung function when they entered the study. Amanda L. Shapiro ’08, president of the Harvard Secular Society, said she worries that the study may be interpreted as “proof of a higher power, or, more specifically, proof of God’s work through participation in organized religion.” Maselko wrote in an e-mail, however, that researchers intend for people...
...view—he suggested that Harvard should produce prophets and spiritual leaders that would satisfy “the feeling of religious need [that] is abroad in our people today”—what Stimson said is a kind of metaphor for modern secular society. Contemporary society has attempted to do away with religion, but because it cannot find anything to replace religion with, it has been confronted over and over by the resurrected hydra. So the void remains...