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Show Japer shows religion's failure Marxism, American political and economic conservatism and traditional academic liberalism, and will make suggestions for assessing human nature and potential. The forum paper will be discussed by Dr. Richard J. Cummings, Honors Program director and associate professor of languages, and Dr. William H. Hess, associate professor of languages. (Ivtionalism and Contemporary Views of " will be the subject of the Great ;s Forum Wednesday at 8 p.m. in l m Spencer Hall Auditorium. nJPeter C. Appleby, associate professor lilosophy, will present the third paper ie current series on "Rationality and lan Conduct." The program is isored by the Department of isophy and is free and open to the ic. eby maintains that civilized man a coherent and realistic conception e nature of and his place in the en-ment, en-ment, and is unable to respond ef-'ely ef-'ely to the problems posed by the rise ence, technology and warfare, as well overpopulation and economic rities. Christianity served man's needs ; past, but the grat conflicts between ce and religion have made the church vant in this age, according to Dr. !by. 'death' of Christianity created an ;ctual vacuum which has not been Irately filled by any of the con-lll'ns con-lll'ns of man which have emerged in Jlpentury thought," says Appleby. Jpleby will explore the shortcomings -'ligious fundamentalism, modern |