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...editor, on the Smithtown Star. One morning in 1933, Church Dropout Henry found himself in a car discussing religion with an ardent layman. After three hours, he says, "I made a commitment to Christ. I knew my life was no longer my own." So even the faith of a rationalist was born in a typical Evangelical...
...solved. Is a sacred truth tainted by the human artifact that bears it? Ozick clearly relishes such paradoxes. Her stories are lush evocations of stony mysteries. In Bloodshed, a middle-aged Jew visits a Hasidic community populated chiefly by survivors of the Nazi death camps. A professed rationalist, he is repelled by the religious sect, with its ancient memories of animal sacrifice, but drawn to its adherents: "Refugees, survivors. He supposed they had a certain knowledge the unscathed could not guess at." Dramatically, he learns that the Hasidim cannot be separated from their beliefs - and that his own lack...
Forbidden Fruits. Horror stories were told in prehistory-there are monsters in the cave paintings. In ancient Egypt, the god Osiris was chopped to pieces on the orders of his mother. Terror haunts Beowulf and the Book of Job. But horror as civilized commercial entertainment arose in the rationalist 18th century, and its compensatory function was recognized. In one of his Caprichos, Painter Francisco Goya said it all: "The sleep of reason breeds monsters...
...Episcopalians), Jesus is thought to be part of the Godhead. To Hindus, Shiva the Destroyer-Restorer is one of the greatest of gods. Odd company indeed for Mohammed, a prophet who never considered himself to be more than a mere human. For Americanized Sufis, of course, such matters are rationalist nitpicking...
Smith was not the first to catch glimmerings of the potential power of a free economy. Some scholars argue that he did no more than pin down and define the rationalist, antiauthoritarian ideas that were in the air 200 years ago. But Smith did that with such mastery that he produced the world's first complete and coherent theory of economic behavior, establishing the starting point for all subsequent capitalist thought...