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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Thinking about religion

What with the Pope and Terri Schiavo and all, it's a topic we're probably all thinking of these days. More food for thought:
National Day of Reason is a humanist response to the national day of prayer, to be held the same day, May 5. From the organizers:

"Many who value the separation of church and state have sought an appropriate response to the federally-funded National Day of Prayer, an annual abuse of the constitution. Nontheistic Americans (including freethinkers, humanists, atheists and agnostics), along with many traditionally religious allies, view such government-sanctioned sectarianism as unduly exclusionary."

There are some good resources linked from this site, including one to ReligiousTolerance.org.

Also, an interesting column from Glenn Reynolds (of Instapundit fame) at Tech Central Station: Religioso, Ma Non Troppo.

"That's a longstanding strain of American thought, too. In fact, the traditional American attitude toward religion -- and especially religion in politics -- might be summed up this way: "Religious, but not too much."
This is captured in two provisions from the Tennessee Constitution, adopted in 1796. Article IX, Section 2 provides that "No person who denies the being of God, or a future state of rewards and punishments, shall hold any office in the civil department of this state."
On the other hand, Article IX, Section 1 provides that: "no minister of the Gospel, or priest of any denomination whatever, shall be eligible to a seat in either House of the Legislature.""

posted by liz at 12:39 PM

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Elisabeth Donovan

Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to the field.

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