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U. chief exhorts students to push religious freedom

Published: Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007 9:37 a.m. MST
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The world's great universities "have in large measure failed" to teach how religion relates to economics, law, sociology and medicine, he said. "If we don't understand that, we study the world with one hand tied behind our backs."

"Think seriously about ways in which you can make thinking about religion in context of whatever you study important. Insist that your professors do it."

Governments that seek to suppress religious freedom are showing the first signs of moving toward suppression of other human rights, he said, because they fail to recognize any allegiance to a higher power.

With an understanding about the importance of free will, Latter-day Saints are "enormously blessed because of truth we have. But that alone is not enough. That blessing is also a call to service" in creating a world that fosters religious freedom for all, he said.


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