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Obiter 0
- September/October 2000
- January 1, 1999
"Many traditional ethical beliefs are hard to justify, except on the assumption that there is a God or a World Spirit or at least an immanent cosmic purpose." –Bertrand Russell, Human Society in Ethics and Politics "I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child
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Blank Check?0
- January/February 1999
- January 1, 1999
The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently approved the participation of religious schools in Milwaukee's Parental Choice Program, which provides low-income parents with a $4,900 voucher for children to attend a private or parochial school. The highly criticized decision raises a number of important questions regarding the flow of tax dollars to religious schools. Can religious schools
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The Good Old Days 0
- January/February 1999
- January 1, 1999
The summer of 1886 was a bad time for Charles B. Reynolds. The iconoclastic religious skeptic (and former Methodist minister) took his free-thought message to Boonton, New Jersey. If Reynolds expected Boontonians to abandon Christianity and embrace free thought, he must have been disappointed. Instead, an unruly mob pelted him with rotten eggs, tore down
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Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth 0
- January/February 1999
- January 1, 1999
Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky don't appear in the following case. Not a breath of illicit sex taints the record. Nobody's going to get kissed or propositioned against his or her will. If your kids sneak a look at this article, they won't ask about words you don't want in their vocabulary until they're senior
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John Paul's Pseudo-Sabbath 0
- January/February 1999
- January 1, 1999
On May 31, 1998, Pope John Paul II issued a lengthy Pastoral Letter Dies Domini, a passionate plea for a revival of Sunday observance. Though this document has enormous historical significance because it addresses the critical problem of Sunday profanation at the threshold of the Great Jubilee Year (2000), it is flawed, both theologically and
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Acts, Declarations, and Decrees 0
- January/February 1999
- January 1, 1999
In 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Included was Article 18, which reads: "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest
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