{"id":3820,"date":"2007-04-18T13:25:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T17:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=3820"},"modified":"2007-04-18T13:26:43","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T17:26:43","slug":"legal-and-religious-irony-on-the-byu-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2007\/04\/legal-and-religious-irony-on-the-byu-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal and Religious Irony on the BYU Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently ran across the <a href=\"http:\/\/fc.byu.edu\/jpages\/ee\/ee.htm\">&#8220;Education for Eternity&#8221; website<\/a> put together by the <a href=\"http:\/\/fc.byu.edu\/\">BYU Faculty Center<\/a>, which collects materials on Mormonism and higher education.  It is not a bad collection, and given that William &#038; Mary has no comperable collection, I appreciate that it is online.  I couldn&#8217;t help but laughing, however, when I clicked to <a href=\"http:\/\/fc.byu.edu\/jpages\/ee\/c_law.htm\">the section on law<\/a> only to find a picture of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. staring at me.  Holmes is a rightly iconic figure in the law, and I assume that he was added to provide a bit of jurisprudential ambiance.  On the other hand, as an avowed and articulate atheist with a streak of moral skepticism amounting at times to nihilism, there is something a bit ironic about having his bewiskered mug presiding over a list of articles by J. Reuben Clark, Dallin H. Oaks, and Bruce Hafen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently ran across the &#8220;Education for Eternity&#8221; website put together by the BYU Faculty Center, which collects materials on Mormonism and higher education. It is not a bad collection, and given that William &#038; Mary has no comperable collection, I appreciate that it is online. I couldn&#8217;t help but laughing, however, when I clicked to the section on law only to find a picture of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. staring at me. Holmes is a rightly iconic figure in the law, and I assume that he was added to provide a bit of jurisprudential ambiance. On the other hand, as an avowed and articulate atheist with a streak of moral skepticism amounting at times to nihilism, there is something a bit ironic about having his bewiskered mug presiding over a list of articles by J. Reuben Clark, Dallin H. Oaks, and Bruce Hafen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}