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...kingdom of Argos, imposing their guilt upon the people in the form of perpetual mourning and black clothing. Sartre cleverly ties this in with existentialism. The guilt does not belong to the people but they are forced to express it. By mourning, the people no longer conceive the world through their own minds but through those of others. Through allegory, Sartre criticizes the people of his epoch trapped by religion and social norms. “Eyes so intent on me, they forget to look into themselves,” Zeus says. Such people cannot light the beacon within themselves...
Since then, however, I’ve learned to appreciate her insistence on giving us a religious education. Even now, I see the relevance of what I learned in church school in my studies and my attitude toward the world...
Believer or not, it’s impossible to deny the effect that religious ideas have had on the world, in fields ranging from art to literature to philosophy. Experiencing some of those ideas firsthand, whatever tradition they stem from, is certainly an asset for anyone who seeks to become an educated person. One might argue that taking a class on religion achieves the same effect as actually practicing that religion—and, certainly, studying religion from a comparative perspective and learning about the views of various groups is an extremely valuable pursuit. But there is also something...
While it would be impractical to suggest that everyone should get a full experience of every religion in the world, to experience even one religion in depth by studying its teachings, attending meetings or services, and being a part of a religious community can provide insight into spiritual beliefs in a way that learning about them from the outside cannot...
...world of the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of the award-winning Broadway play “Proof”—which ran in the Loeb Experimental Theatre this weekend—is “horrible yet wonderful. Ugly yet beautiful. Dysfunctional yet functional. Warm yet cold. Put simply, real,” according to director Kriti Lodha ’12, who is also a Crimson magazine editor. “Proof” tells the story of Catherine (Caroline R. Giuliani ’11), the daughter of Robert (Robert Rogers...