Obiter
- September/October 2000
- November 1, 1997
As a result of comments in today's media, I write to provide some insight about my thoughts on organized religion. I want to be clear about one thing. I respect the role that religious organizations play I our communities and more importantly, that faith plays in people's lives. I appreciate the presence of religious organizations
READ MOREI read the "Goodbyes" in the May/June issue and felt the need to reply. Though I don't always agree with Liberty's opinions and articles, I do value the forum fo the exchange of ideas and diverse opinions. The greatest danger to our society is not diverse opinions, but rather the silencing of opinions that do
READ MOREFar away from the damp and demoralizing influence of an Old World, where ethnic rivalry and religious compulsion stifled the spirit, the framers of the American Constitution and this new republic sought to perpetuate their larger vision. In anticipating this first editorial of my tenure as editor of Liberty I went back and reviewed some
READ MOREClifford Goldstein makes some very good points in the matter of Christians loving their neighbor when he writes, "Thus, loving even those whose views oppose yours is about as fundamental as fundamental Christianity can get . . . Jesus never said to love your neighbor's beliefs, only your neighbor–a big difference" (THE LOGIC OF HATE,
READ MOREI was very interested to read "The Establishment Clause Assault" by Glenn Bergmann, in the March/April 1999 edition of Liberty. Mr. Bergmann eloquently illustrated the perverse paradigms in the Establishment Clause controversy. Frequently, we are tempted to believe that threats to religious freedom come only from Supreme Court rulings, such as Boerne v. P.F. Flores,
READ MOREThough 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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