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on what basis would someone be required to give a recommendation?

I don't think recommendations can be required. Makes the whole thing a very gray area. Still, there is something different between requiring recommendation, and disallowing discriminatory reasons for refusing recommendations.

And, give that a given professor may be a bigot, the least he can do is hide his bigotry, and lie about why he won't grant the recommendation.

Hmm. Not a very arguable position I've carved out there, is it?

To: Charles Dodgson

My point was that Christians argue that there must be a God because things cannot just be,

Actually that is a secondary argument that isn't relevant to the primary facets of Christianity and it certainly has no central agreement.

The primary Christian view is

1. There is a one God.(Taken on faith)

2. We rebel against this one God and we put ourselves in place of him. (evidenced by the sinful nature of man.

3. We need to reconcile ourselves to God through Jesus, because we are only truly free when we place God at the center of our lives.

4. We cannot place God at the center of our lives without the grace and forgiveness that Jesus brought.

Arguing that one must believe in God because he created the world is actually belittling the meaning and the importance of entire religion. In order to be truly free we must reconcile ourselves to God. This is the meaning of eternal life. A Christian's life is eternal in the here and now, not just in some murky after life. That is the main argument for Christiandom. All the rest, ie life everlasting, the creation story, the ten commandments etc. All of that is just icing on a cake.

374 posted on 04/30/2003 9:03 AM PDT by VRWC_minion (Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)

And, give that a given professor may be a bigot, the least he can do is hide his bigotry, and lie about why he won't grant the recommendation.

All recommendations are subjective. by their ver nature, they imply a personal relationship between two people, a meeting of the minds. If there is no meeting of the minds, there can be no honest recommendation, other than acknowledgement that objective standards have been met.