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  • Obiter0

    Though not exactly the Transfiguration, what I experienced from these words (by astrophysicist John Gribbin in Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality) was, nevertheless, almost epiphany: "In very round terms, the quantum world operates on a scale as much smaller than a sugar cube as a sugar cube is compared with the entire observable

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  • Through the Back Door0

    Luther on Church and State Many erroneously believe that Martin Luther approved of or even designed Germany's state-church system. On the contraryhe actually attempted to protect the church from state interference. In the 1520s he developed the "two kingdoms" or "two regiments"2 position. Specifically he divided the functions of church and state according to spiritual

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  • This Headline is False0

    U.S. Supreme Court justice William Rehnquist's dissent in Wallace v. Jaffree (472 U.S. 38), 1985, is considered by many (see p. ?) one of the best historical defenses of a limited view of the reach and meaning of the Establishment Clause, a view that's increasingly gaining ground in American jurisprudence. Included in his dissent is

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  • Who Really "Changed" the Sabbath?0

    "The Catholic Church for over one thousand years before the existence of a Protestant, by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to Sunday. We say by virtue of her divine mission, because He who called Himself the 'Lord of the Sabbath,' endowed her with His own power to teach, 'he that

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  • Op. Cit.0

    One Man's Faith is Another's Secular Organization I have enjoyed your magazine for some time, finding your articles sometimes amusing (often unintentionally), sometimes stimulating, and sometimes moving. I have rarely found them inaccurate. However, in your article "A Ride Down Sixteenth Street" (September/October 1998), you have included in your list of religious places of worship

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  • Iambs And Pentameters0

    Many of America's Founding Fathers, especially Jefferson, believed that education was the key to preserving our republican government. If so, one wonders how much longer the republic has when, for instance, the University of California (Santa Cruz) offers courses like "Feminist Cyborg Fiction," which includes stories about a "lesbian-of-color vampire." How secure are the foundations

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