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    "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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    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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    Whatever its faults (the unreasonable trust in reason, the tendency toward a hypernaturalism, the unwarranted optimism in human progress, the "demythologization" of religion), the Enlight- enment worldview at least included the possibility of knowledge and of truth. The real was deemed rational and, hence, knowable by rational minds. Not only does reality exist, but we

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    The Sound and the Fury I was amazed to read in Liberty (March/April 1998, p. 16) that Judge Moore is "promoting religion" by permitting the display of the Ten Commandments and prayer in his courtroom. If this logic follows, then every vestige of our Christian historical nature is in violation of the First Amendment, which

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    "We have taken the sword of Caesar, and in taking it, of course, we have rejected Thee and followed him." –The Grand Inquisitor In the greatest chapter ("The Grand Inquisitor") in the greatest novel (The Brothers Karamazov) of the West's greatest novelist (Fyodor Dostoyevsky), Jesus Christ returns to earth–not in heavenly glory on bright clouds

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    Prayer Warriors Your May/June issue is very stimulating, interesting, and witty. Since the feature story is "Alabama's Religious War," you can imagine how I immediately focussed on that. Thanks for championing the civil rights issues! And be sure to give the person or persons who design your covers a special award. I think that your

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