Pew studies the importance of religion in China, Methodists and Lutherans swing both ways, and what media coverage of the fundamentalist Mormons has omitted…
Unless you are a geneticist the answer may surprise you. The ethical problems with cloning turn out to be the result of some confusion about what cloning is, and isn’t.
Indignant responses to the Janet Jackson nipple slip and the somber post-9/11 halftime show reveal glimpses of the sanctity of this yearly ritual, but it’s also in the creation of icons, the reinforcement of rules, and Americans telling themselves stories about themselves.
When the modern Olympic Games were revived they were imbued with a religious and ritualistic significance. How that will be handled by Communist China remains to be seen.
