The good doctor.Your lead editorial, "Getting Religion" (January 16, 2004), is carefully unspecific Adj. 1. unspecific - not detailed or specific; "a broad rule"; "the broad outlines of the plan"; "felt an unspecific dread" broad general - applying to all or most members of a category or group; "the general public"; "general assistance"; "a general rule"; about what qualities make a candidate "religious," although you seem to accept Franklin Foer's judgment in the New Republic that Howard Dean is "one of the most secular ... in modern history." In your estimation, must a "religious" candidate be a crusader for Good against Evil (read: terrorism, abortion, homosexuality); a leader so confident of his divine calling to spread the gospel of unfettered capitalism that he can assemble a bevy bevy a flock of birds. of pastors for the laying on of hands Noun 1. laying on of hands - the application of a faith healer's hands to the patient's body faith cure, faith healing - care provided through prayer and faith in God 2. , as President George W. Bush did in 2000; a man not ashamed to be seen withdrawing for prayer prior to a prime-time TV announcement that the war in Iraq was about to begin? I myself will take Dean's "resolute secularism" any day. The good doctor preaches the peacemaking Peacemaking See also Antimilitarism. Agrippa, Menenius Coriolanus’s witty friend; reasons with rioting mob. [Br. Lit.: Coriolanus] Antenor percipiently urges peace with Greeks. [Gk. Lit. of the Sermon on the Mount Sermon on the Mount Biblical collection of religious teachings and ethical sayings attributed to Jesus, as reported in the Gospel of St. Matthew. The sermon was addressed to disciples and a large crowd of listeners to guide them in a life of discipline based on a new law of ; gospel justice for workers here and in the third world; biblical respect for God's universe; and the Christian mandate to attend to basic human needs--housing, food, medical care, and education. JOSEPH TIKHON MURRAY Waterford, Conn. |
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