Religion

regardless of system of thought. I was going to say "belief" but that might be an issue among non-theists and agnostics. I was in t the DoD for over 25 years, and if this "manager" is half the manager that our chaplain was, Harvard students should be well-served. One of the chaplains we had was Christian in his own theology, but true to his actual mission in the military and DoD, he got out of his own way in order to help people with where -they- were coming from -- including this very out-of-the-closet witch. I have always been a Seeker, and in my seeking, the one thing I've seen is when you boil all religions down to their very core, they are all pretty much say the same thing - do good, love each other, don't cause harm, know yourself. The problem are those in the religion who have alternative issues - much as our own talibangelicals, or the Islamists in the ME.

I can't say enough good about this Christian pastor we had. He helped me through a very difficult time in my life. And he did it keeping all the buzzwords and beliefs inherent in Christianity out of it.

I contrast that with what the cadets at the AF College have had to put up with all these many years, and see how lucky we really were. Unfortunately, when it came time for our pastor to PCS, he was replaced with an evangelical who was everything "our" pastor had tried hard not to be. Needless it say, it was the last time the pastors' department ever saw me.