Word: worshiped
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...close-knit and diverse residential community, which welcomes and supports all sorts of students. Harvard wisely does not refrain from engaging us on spiritual and religious terms when taking over significant portions of our personal lives—we eat Harvard food, sleep in Harvard beds and worship in Harvard churches, synagogues and mosques. As a Harvard student, I expect my University, which has taken over so much of my residential life, to provide me with a complete personal environment. Which means that if one expects to have Christmas decorations in one’s home, even dining room, then...
SPIRITUALITY Houses of worship have already seen attendance rise as much as 10%, but God is also in Aisle 2: Bibles have been moving off shelves in record numbers, and at Neiman Marcus, top-selling necklaces include a cross pendant, above, and a gold-and-diamond horseshoe, for good luck...
...sounds more Taliban than zen , but there is a saying among teachers of the latter way of life, "If you see the Buddha, kill him!" The point being made in Zen's challenging way is that Buddha was a teacher not a god, and therefore visions or worship of him are forms of idolatry his followers should not fall...
...forget that not so long ago, the government had no compunction about spying on citizens? religious practices. Despite the long-standing association of the American bill of rights with absolute religious freedom, it wasn?t until the early 1970s that the federal government stopped its surveillance of places of worship. Before that, FBI director J. Edgar Hooper spent much of his term spying on the comings and goings of rabble-rousers as varied as the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and assorted Ku Klux Klan members...
...reason for an investigation. "Religion can?t form the basis for launching an inquiry in the first place," he says. "That kind of singling out flies in the face of our laws. If there are any concrete disadvantaging treatments or consequences - including chilling of expression or practices of worship -" there will probably be legal challenges...