Monday, December 27, 2021

PSA

Happy holidays - but don't forget that your school's two-hour online Harassment Prevention Training must be completed by January 1st. 

Bonus: you'll encounter stale concepts of religion and the anarchic concept of "sincerely held" belief currently hollowing them out.

Verily, the U. S. Equal Opportunity Commission faithfully articulates the incoherence of American understandings of religious freedom: "A religious practice may be sincerely held by an individual even if newly adopted, not consistently observed, or different from the commonly followed tenets of the individual's religion." Is it belief or practice that is "sincerely held," and, whatever it is, how can it be distinct from "the individual's religion" and still merit religious protection?