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A Nation That Believes: America without religion is not America.
This is always the season of the year for reflection on new beginnings, but the horrible deaths of September 11 have added to this year's thoughts a special urgency: If terrorists are going to kill us just because we are Americans, we might as well be Americans, and inquire more deeply into what being American means.
One thing being American means is believing, more than people from most other nations do, that there should be a close relation between reason and faith. As the sociologist Peter Berger puts it, America is the most religious of the developed nations, despite its elites. America, he says, has a people more religious than any other except maybe the ...
- Plain Old Common Sense Can Make You a Better Parent.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 28, 2007 700+ words
...surveyed Americans Reveal How Common Sense Impacts Their Lives NEENAH...28 /PRNewswire/ -- While common sense is easy to recognize but difficult...something that we take for granted. Common sense is most often expressed through...
- Common sense issue is uncommonly confusing
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Diane Crowley November 12, 1987 700+ words
Dear Readers: Can common sense can be learned, or do you have to be...have to be born with it": Dear Diane: Common sense is not common. I know highly educated people who lack basic common sense. It can't be learned; it is inborn...
- Common Sense
- Dictionary definition from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Ellis, Elisabeth January 1, 2005 700+ words
COMMON SENSE. The common-sense philosophers of the Scottish school — including Thomas...to maintain propositions the reverse of the primary truths of common sense, doth not imply a contradiction, it only implies insanity...
- Emotional Common Sense as Constitutional Law
- Magazine article from: Vanderbilt Law Review Maroney, Terry A April 1, 2009 700+ words
...jurisprudence: reliance on what this Article coins "emotional common sense." Emotional common sense is what one unreflectively thinks she knows about emotions. A species of common sense, it seems obvious and universal to its holder-but this...
- Common sense--a key component of decision making.
- Magazine article from: AORN Journal BEYEA, SUZANNE C. NICOLL, LESLIE H. December 1, 1999 700+ words
...valid or reliable sources of information, common sense should prevail as the foundation for decision...making. Most of us assume that we use our common sense when we make decisions, but common sense is not a given. As the French philosopher...
- Got Common Sense? Scott(R) Wants You! Nationwide Search For First 'Chief Common...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 2, 2003 700+ words
...Humorist Will Rogers declared "common sense ain't so common." But SCOTT...mindful that parents are masters of common sense, has launched a nationwide search for the first Chief Common Sense Officer (CCSO) -- to serve as a...
- Recognizing common sense.(employee supervision)
- Magazine article from: Supervision Cottringer, William April 1, 2004 700+ words
...of what they mean. What exactly does common sense mean? People who have it use it rather...definition I ever read. He said, "Common sense is the simple knack of seeing something...that? But if it were so easy, why is common sense so uncommon? The demonstration and...
- Survey Finds 43% of Americans Confirm They Excel at Common Sense, and 7% Show...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 28, 2004 700+ words
...Americans report they have "a lot more" common sense than most people, a survey by SCOTT...humorist Will Rogers' observation that "common sense ain't common," only seven percent actually have Common Sense Perception (CSP), the most exceptional...