“Decisions would have to be made at a higher level than anything that’s written down right now.”
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Month: October 2003
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Power? What power?
“The problem with liberals is that they think nobody should have any power. Well, people do have power, and the question is which people and to what ends.”
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Philocrites for Clark.
Wesley Clark for president.
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Too much C Major.
We seem happiest practicing our religion in the bright, confident key of C Major (“Joyful, joyful!”) while belittling anything that doesn’t sound quite so chipper.
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‘What if the Koran isn’t perfect?’
“As a Canadian Muslim, Irshad Manji never eats pork, never drinks alcohol and regularly reads the Koran. Otherwise she is Osama bin Laden’s worst nightmare.”
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Schwarzenegger for enlightened despot?
“I feel if you want to create a strong nation and a strong country you cannot let everybody be an individual, because everybody has his own opinions.”
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Losing my religion.
“Every 20 or 30 years or so, a large portion of every UU congregation seems to look around and say, ‘Where has my church gone?’”
The other “World” magazine puts the fun back in fundamentalism.
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UUA Moderator resigns.
Diane Olson steps down; a replacement will be elected at the General Assembly in Long Beach.
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Sport as ritual.
“Vicariously, we have risked, we have dared, we have struggled, we have won and lost.”