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Practicality and a Puritan bias toward plainness have made the white clapboard church, not the soaring stone spire, the nation's quintessential symbol of worship. Yet some Americans prefer to honor God in grandeur. One was George Washington, who dreamed of "a great church for national purposes in the capital city." It was only a century later that members of his Episcopal Church began making plans to build a towering Gothic cathedral atop the highest point of land in the District of Columbia...
Hooray for Stefan Kanfer's report on violence in sports [May 31]. It is a pathetic commentary that the immature, destructive behavior of our contemporary "superheroes" is three strikes below the maturity level of the children who worship and glorify them...
Carter publicly confronted the religious issue early last week in Elizabeth, NJ. Responding to a question from a predominantly Jewish audience of 2,000, the candidate-a blue velvet yarmulke perched atop his head-declared extemporaneously: "I worship the same God you do; we [Baptists] study the same Bible that you do. This is a country wherein one's own religious faith should not be a matter of prejudice or concern. The ability of Jews, Catholics, Baptists, even atheists to work in harmony with one another in our nation, based on a system of religious pluralism, is one that...
...most potentiality-for-Being-that is, its Being-free for the freedom of choosing itself and taking hold of itself." He made studied verbal analogies (for example, heil, whole; heilig, holy; and heilen, to heal). His days as a professor and rector at Freiburg University revealed a power worship that has disfigured German philosophy since the days of Hegel. Sympathetic to Naziism, he declared in 1933: "The Fuhrer himself and alone is the German reality present and future...
Even the Bronx native and lifetime New Yorker sitting next to me started rooting for the Olde Towne Team after the grounded Spaceman exited. New Yorkers, are like that, I guess, possessed with an urge to hero worship, but without the patience to develop tested team loyalty. (Another companion at the game, also a Big Apple native, confessed that his childhood adulation of the Detroit TIgers had ended completely when A1 Kaline retired...