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Brad, Perhaps the Jewish religion isn’t a
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"Christian.." in its title?). One thing
that has always struck me about the Christian Science
Monitor newspaper is its general fairness on ideological
and religious issues. I have never come across an
example of "the monitor" slanting anything in a pro-religious
direction, unlike, e.g., as the article points out,
George W Bush. Has anyone ever seen anything in
"the monitor" that even looked like it was pushing
the agenda of any religious faith? Indeed, I think
"the monitor" is one of the least one-sidedly pro-Israel
mainstream newspapers -- not that they are
anti-Israel, but they tell you what the Palestineans
are thinking in a relatively dispassionate way.
I generally trust "the monitor". Anyone disagree? The
debates that the CSM refers to
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secularism in general. When the
new pope was being elected, the 3 main concerns
the cardinals were addressing, according to one commentator
associated with the RCS, were: (1) internal church
governance, (2) relations between the Roman Church and Islam,
and (3) secularism, especially in even used
a term I found evocative: he said increasingly
"post religious". In this
sense it's also strange that the CSM
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currents of secularism, Christianity, and Islam How big
an issue is Judaism today, compared with "secularism,
Christianity, and Islam"? The article did not mention
Bahai, Buddhism, TM, The Unification Church, Hinduism
or a number of other religions, either.... I would
argue that the most important thing is not what
religion persons happen to believe in, but whether they
think they should judge themselves and others by the dictates
of that religion (George Bush, Osama bin Laden, the Pope,
et al.), or whether they should judge the
tenets of that religion (including its Deity/ies, etc./et al.) according
to their own and others' rational
deliberations (the idea of beings
there may be in the universe and in history...). "Yours
in discourse...." \brad
mccormick are
compelling Europeans
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