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By extolling freedom of religion in the schools, President Bill Clinton has raised the level of debate on the importance of religion to American life.[2] The time is ripe for a deeper dialogue on the contribution of religion to the welfare of the nation.
America has always been a religious country. Its first Christian inhabitants were only too anxious to explain what they were doing and why, explains historian Paul Johnson. In a way the first American settlers were like the ancient Israelites. They saw themselves as active agents of divine providence. [3] Today, he adds, it is generally accepted that more than half the American people still attend a place of worship over a weekend, an index of religious practice unequaled anywhere in the world, certainly in a great and populous nation. [4]
Why so many House Republicans co-signed Texas s lawsuit to overturn the election
Sarah Binder, The Washington Post
Dec. 15, 2020
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Last week, 126 House Republicans signed onto a brief supporting Texas s lawsuit asking the Supreme Court to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The court summarily rejected Texas s bid, leading one Republican senator to declare that the justices had closed the book on the president s [legal] nonsense.
Lawmakers occasionally sign onto these friend of the court efforts, especially because legislators can file such briefs without any formal action by the House. Still, this brief stood out. Monday night in a national address, President-elect Joe Biden joined observers on both sides of the aisle in decrying the underlying legal push as deeply anti-democratic. GOP lawmakers who signed on from the states targeted by the suit - Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Arizona - in effect were calling on the court to thr
Life on Earth Is Ruled by Chance 15/12/2020
Photo: Jörg Bittner Unna/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Prince Hamlet spent a lot of time pondering the nature of chance and probability in William Shakespeare’s tragedy. In the famous “To be or not to be” speech, he notes that we helplessly face “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” though a little earlier in the play he declares that “there’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow,” suggesting that everything happens because God wills it to be so.
We can hardly fault the prince for holding two seemingly contradictory views about the nature of chance; after all, it is a puzzle that has vexed humankind through the ages. Why are we here? Or to give the question a slightly more modern spin, what sequence of events brought us here, and can we imagine a world in which we didn’t arrive on the scene at all?
Rome’s Sacred Boundary
The
pomerium, the sacred boundary of Rome, was of enormous importance in the history of the Eternal City. Prof. Koortbojian (Princeton) takes the reader on a tour through the history of this boundary. He begins with an outline of its history, from its semi-mythic origins, when Romulus supposedly marked it out in the earth with a plow at the founding of the city, and carries the story of its role and importance through the history of early kings and the Republic, and then concentrates on its evolution from the time of Caesar, some seven hundred years later, to that of Constantine, nearly a thousand years from its creation.
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