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Probably the major failing of such enterprise is that the results, however persuasive, tell too little about the nature and will of God. Blaise Pascal, anticipating modern objections to natural theology, believed that one cannot worship a dry concept, only the living God. Though a genius in science and mathematics, Pascal believed that "the heart has its reasons, which reason cannot know." But if in an age of science, faith in God can be more rationally grounded, as a growing number of philosophers now attest, then the reasoning soul who is so inclined can more surely and assuredly feel comfortable...
...Americans do not typically believe in euthanasia for everybody over 65 or 70, but a great many would agree with Pudd'nhead Wilson that "it is better to be a young Junebug than an old bird of paradise." The American worship of youthfulness, which has made big industries of facelift surgery and the hair dye trade, may seem vain but essentially harmless. Yet it has a seamier side. One outgrowth of the nation's aversion to aging has been a tendency to look askance at, and often down on, people in the later years of life. The attitude...
...complicated one to retell, but not to unravel. Simon eventually unwinds from his identity crisis to perceive the truth about himself, and escapes with his girlfriend from the Institute after the Pentagon has come with orders to kill him. Along the way, he meets a tribe who worship the Sacred Box, and hold services in which the reader preaches from TV Guide--a comic touch that succeeds in theory, but not in practice, and reminds us that this is, after all, Brickman's first movie...
...only paragraph that was finally deleted from the resolution, at U.S. insistence, was one demanding that Israel "respect and guarantee religious freedoms and practices in Jerusalem and other holy places in the occupied Arab territories as well as the integrity of places of religious worship." In fact, Israel's observance of these guarantees has been so scrupulous as to defy criticism by truly neutral observers...
...also believes that students are being duped into believing that a B.A. degree will ensure success in the corporate job market. Parker's alarm at what she sees as credential worship leads her to recommend abolishing the B.A. degree in order to shift focus to the value of the education itself...