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I've read a
lot of religious literature, none of it say well with me enough to believe it, but I don't think anyone else should be deprived of their right to believe.
One reason is that in the First Century, «Gospel accounts» was a popular
genre of religious literature designed to celebrate the birth of a new Roman emperor.
This approach provides a group incentive to read solid religious books and to wrestle collectively with ideas from many
facets of religious literature.
Neither «elegant extracts», nor a selection of texts for «devotional» reading (though no doubt each may serve a purpose) could convey the rare, indeed the unique, character of the Bible as a
body of religious literature.
That O'Connor was a devout, practicing Catholic who often decried what she saw as the sentimentalism and namby -
pambyism of religious literature in her time is no secret to those who've read her writing in books like Mystery and Manners and her letters in The Habit of Being.
In the course of the proceedings, the Tribunal was required to determine two issues: first, whether atheism is in fact a protected «creed»; and, second, whether the School Board's policy on the
distribution of religious literature violated the Human Rights Code.