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Lawrence Hrubes

Pondering Miracles, Medical and Religious - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • The tribunal that questioned me was not juridical, but ecclesiastical. I was not asked about my faith. (For the record, I’m an atheist.) I was not asked if it was a miracle. I was asked if I could explain it scientifically. I could not, though I had come armed for my testimony with the most up-to-date hematological literature, which showed that long survivals following relapses were not seen.
  • When, at the end, the Vatican committee asked if I had anything more to say, I blurted out that as much as her survival, thus far, was remarkable, I fully expected her to relapse some day sooner or later. What would the Vatican do then, revoke the canonization? The clerics recorded my doubts. But the case went forward and d’Youville was canonized on Dec. 9, 1990.
  • Respect for our religious patients demands understanding and tolerance; their beliefs are as true for them as the “facts” may be for physicians. Now almost 40 years later, that mystery woman is still alive and I still cannot explain why. Along with the Vatican, she calls it a miracle. Why should my inability to offer an explanation trump her belief? However they are interpreted, miracles exist, because that is how they are lived in our world.
Beata Rodlingova

Points of view (The Guardian advert, 1986) - 0 views

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    The Guardian's award-winning 'Skinhead' commercial was screened in 1986 and features a skinhead who appeared to be wrestling a man's briefcase from his hands. But the camera then cuts and viewers see that he is in fact trying to rescue the man from falling bricks
Lawrence Hrubes

Textbooks for Peace in Israel and the West Bank - The New Yorker - 0 views

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  • One of the few Palestinians who has tried to teach the Holocaust, Muhammad S. Dajani Daoudi, included it in a course at Al Quds University, in Jerusalem, and took twenty-seven Palestinian students to visit Auschwitz last year. He was vilified and hounded into resigning.
  • All eight students firmly denied that Jewish temples had ever stood in Jerusalem, a repudiation that has gained widespread currency among Palestinians, both Christian and Muslim. Textbooks don’t have to go that far; merely ignoring Jewish history in Jerusalem creates a vacuum, into which flow fabrications.
  • By contrast, Israeli textbooks acknowledge Islam’s connection to Jerusalem, according to Daniel Bar-Tal, of Tel Aviv University, the leading Israeli researcher for the Council of Religious Institutions study. Their central silence concerns the Palestinians’ angry pain over the founding of the Jewish state, which they mourn as “Al Nakba” (“the catastrophe”), in which they see alien outsiders as having stolen their land, killing and expelling innocent Arabs.
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