Sunday, May 1, 2011
Lessons From Mar Saba
When all the dust settles on the Mar Saba controversy it will end up being an indictment of the humanities. There is more than enough blame to go around. My personal belief is that religion and theology has no place in the university system. It is impossible to be objective about God and religion. The world won't end if in North America at least it remains the exclusive domain of universities and seminaries affiliated with a particular religious institution.
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dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."