Political Correctness at the Crossroads: College of W&M

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<p>rorosen–careful. Don’t mention “worship” and “T” in the same sentence. You’ll offend the Abecedarians. ;)</p>

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<p>some of my best friends are Alphabetarians,…</p>

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<p>Ro,</p>

<p>…if, in the future, you could please spell “AlphabeTarians” with out the “T” so as to be all-inclusive and not be suspected of “Cross-worship”. </p>

<p>…Making the world safe for the milk-n-toast crowd.</p>

<p>Perhaps as such: “alphabe_arians”?
Though anything that comes to mind–in the spirit of meaninglessness–will do.</p>

<p>CC is, I am informed, a soft-multicultural community wherein no one need be offended by the regalia of any particular culture nor need be confronted with the otherwise obvious fact that the ‘multi’ part of multi-culture in fact means <em>more</em> cultural, rather than their preferred “a-cultural”:
Milquetoast culture, as it is now known.</p>

<p>Thanks, daddy-o.</p>

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<p>…I am, while exposing your work to an even greater (larger?) audience, working out the music to such a sturdy and inspiring piece of pro-feminist verse.</p>

<p>Not at all clear that the subject or object is Words worth, but the words are worth something to me.</p>

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<p>Dorohy, I don hink i is righ or fair for you o expec people o change heir wriing syles jus o sui you</p>

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<p>…well done!</p>

<p>A words wor_h, to be sure!</p>

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<p>Dorothy_ParkerX,
If you truly understood what prayer means to religious people, you’d also
know that the symbols that we choose to surround ourselves with infuse our thoughts and feelings during that sacred purpose.
You are most kindly invited to my synagogue’s “chapel.” (Higherlead, notice our word choice: “chapel.” It just means “fewer seats than the big sanctuary” and is not owned by the Christian faith. Very different from the word “church.” I’m sure you understand analogies, even if they’re not on the SAT any more: chapel:church as house-of-worship:synagogue.)
In our Jewish chapel, I hope you can relax and feel comfortable invoking the name of Jesus while surrounded by the same symbols He would have rejected as banal in the Holy Temple: the seven-branched menorah, for example.<br>
You may sit next to me (I’m there most every week).
Once our personal prayers have ended, let’s both mosey over to a Hindu temple and see how far we each get trying to say our own liturgies while a figurine hangs on the wall with arms moving in several directions. Are you feeling distracted? Hey, me too!
Let’s find a nice plain-walled room and I think we can both pray much better there.</p>

<p>A cross is not a universal symbol, it is absolutely a Christological symbol. You are quite a bully, even with all your cleverness, towards students paying equally to attend William and Mary. When they enrolled, some looked forward to spending a quiet moment in a chapel, which is a far cry from a church. You’re ripping them off.</p>

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<p>No doubt having skimmed the thread, you might easily have missed the fact that, like you, I do not practice the Christian faith, but another faith altogether.</p>

<p>Though I must confess to have prayed in the presence of crosses, statues of Shiva and even the regalia of the Jewish faith…amongst other religious and secular symbols to no ill effect.</p>

<p>In any case, the point here is not to add a cross to a historically Christian chapel, but to remove a cross from a historically Christian chapel. One is hardly a bully when engaging in such inactivity. The bully is the one that starts ripping things out and throwing things around…even if to a “good” purpose. </p>

<p>What we have here is faith by subtraction.
A peculiar religiosity, indeed.</p>

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<p>“historically” there is the rub…it is no longer a Christian chapel</p>

<p>and it is swell, you yourself weren’t personally offended, because that is the most important thing</p>

<p>no worries about others…</p>

<p>I guess by some people logic ALL historic buildings should be kept exactlly as intended, for no other use, no matter if times and needs have changed and the people using the building have changed…yeah, that is logical</p>

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<p>This just in:</p>

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<p>It sounds like the cross will be visible in a side area (?) but not on the altar.</p>

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<p>Sounds like his decision might be offensive to the Christophobes.</p>

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<p>Dorothy_Parker X, Post #368: [“No doubt having skimmed the thread, you might easily have missed the fact that, like you, I do not practice the Christian faith, but another faith altogether.”]</p>

<p>Intrigued by your challenging hint, I just reread all your posts in reverse order, hoping they’d make more sense that way (they mostly did not).</p>

<p>I thought I might have done you a disservice and missed where you named the faith you do practice. </p>

<p>You said explicitly that you’re not Christian and not Jewish.</p>

<p>Ok, so I give up. </p>

<p>Care to share?</p>

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<p>p3t - Dottie is a Sufi. As to the post by Coronax - did somebody mention bullies?</p>

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<p>I thought…oh never mind</p>

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<p>The McGlothlin situation is unfortunate. He already has a building too.</p>

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<a href=“http://www.wm.edu/news/index.php?id=7456[/url]”>W&M News;

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<p>The McGlothlin situation is unfortunate. He already has a building too.</p>

<p>Indeed, that was pretty despicable. I hope Nichol’s next order of business is to rename that building. The name was pretty poor in the first place.</p>

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<p>Why don’t we rename “The United States of America”, while we’re at it? Wouldn’t be more fairly and accurately named, “The Forcibly Appropriated Land of Native Peoples”? :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>Money talks, doesn’t it?</p>

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<p>My condolences to my fellow ccers’s who’d hoped to have the offending religious symbol kept in the closet at a time when we are otherwise advised that all good things must come out of the closet: sort of an anti-out of sight out of mind tolerance of the “other.”.</p>

<p>“see no ‘evil’,” etc, etc, is not in the interest of either knowledge, a multiplicity of views or truth.</p>

<p>If any other religious symbol had been an historic part of the chapel, I would have protested its removal, as well.</p>

<p>Religion is, to my mind, a culturally and at times spiritually edifying human institution. There are many ways of knowing truth, and certainly religion and, within that ancient matrix, Christianity, is one of them.</p>

<p>Here are others points of interest in the area:
<a href=“http://www.wm.edu/so/balfour-hillel/Community-%20Local%20Synagogues.htm[/url]”>http://www.wm.edu/so/balfour-hillel/Community-%20Local%20Synagogues.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.wm.edu/so/msa/[/url]”>http://www.wm.edu/so/msa/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://www.wm.edu/studentactivities/clubs/directory.php?id=376[/url]”>http://www.wm.edu/studentactivities/clubs/directory.php?id=376&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>There are others. Hopefully, out of this, there presence will grow at the campus of William & Mary.</p>