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| | Secularism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Proponents of secularism have long held a general rise of secularism in all the senses enumerated above, and corresponding general decline of religion in so called 'secularized' countries, to be the inevitable result of the Enlightenment, as people turn towards science and rationalism and away from religion and superstition. | | | This article concerns secularism, the social ideology in which religion and supernatural beliefs are not seen as the key to understanding the world and are instead segregated from matters of governance and reasoning. | | | In philosophy, secularism is the belief that life can be best lived by applying ethics, and the universe best understood, by processes of reasoning, without reference to a god or gods or other supernatural concepts. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularism
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| | How to Think About Secularism |
| | Secularization is not caused by the separation of church and state. | | | Science secularized the theological idea of law by turning it into the idea of the eternal laws of nature, and the idea of an infinite universe was the secularized version of an earlier belief in the infinity of God. | | | The distinction between the secular realm and the realm called religious or spiritual is nothing new in Christian history. |
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http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9606/articles/pannenberg.html
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| | SECULARISM IN CHURCH, THEOLOGY AND PASTORAL CARE |
| | Secularism is the loss of the true life of the Church, the alienation of Church members from the genuine Church spirit. | | | Secularism in the Church is directly related to the loss of Church's true objective. | | | To be accurate, we would say that secularism, which consists in the adulteration of the way of life and of true faith, is related to the passions and, naturally, has been lurking in the Church since the beginning of its existence. |
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http://www.pelagia.org/htm/ar01.en.secularism_in_church.htm
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| | Catholic Culture : Document Library : On Secularism |
| | Secularism, or the practical exclusion of God from human thinking and living, is at the root of the world's travail today. | | | Thus secularism, as the solvent of practical religious influence in the everyday life of men and nations, is not indeed the most patent, but in a very true sense the most insidious hindrance to world reconstruction within the strong framework of God's natural law. | | | Secularism which exiles God from human life clears the way for the acceptance of godless subversive ideologies — just as religion, which keeps God in human life, has been the one outstanding opponent of totalitarian tyranny. |
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http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=767
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| | secular opinion or belief, esp. a system following a political or social philosophy that rejects religious faith. |
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| | Perverting secularism |
| | However, the so-called 'secularism' rampant in India is a perversion of that reasonable idea: in India it is contrived to mean the active involvement of the State in supporting certain religions (Islam, Christianity and Marxism) and oppressing others (Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism). | | | This is deeply ironic because even the true definition of secularism, that is, separation of Religion and State, is superfluous in India, because none of the Indic religions interferes in the affairs of the State. | | | Thus the concept of secularism was born: a separation of Church and State, so that religious considerations could be excluded from civil affairs and public education. |
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http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/jul/05rajeev.htm
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| | DESACRALIZING SECULARISM |
| | The typical manifestations of secularization, then, would be: the separation of Church and state, the expropriation of Church lands, the emancipation of education from ecclesiastical authority etc. Thus, for all its discomforts to the Church, secularization continues to be the cardinal doctrine of sociology. | | | Secularism does not present a unified theory or a systematic doctrine and the Muslim critic is obliged to resist the temptation of imparting on it a theoretical and epistemological unity which it manifestly lacks. | | | Secularism as truth, as doctrine, therefore, cannot be separated from the theory and practice of secular power. |
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http://www.algonet.se/~pmanzoor/Des-Sec.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Secularism |
| | The knowledge of the material world leads to the knowledge of the spiritual world, and among the duties of the present life must be reckoned those which arise from the existence and nature of God, the fact of a Divine Revelation, and the necessity of preparing, for the future life. | | | The latter held that Secularism is based simply on the study of nature and has nothing to do with religion, while Bradlaugh claimed that Secularism should start with the disproof of religion. | | | The Church is as intent as Secularism on the improvement of this life, as respectful of scientific achievements, as eager for the fulfilment of all duties pertaining to the present life. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13676a.htm
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| | The Debauching of Secularism in India |
| | India is not at the cross-roads of secularism or theocracy. | | | If the Gujarat riots have agitated the secular leadership so much, it is not their faith in secularism as much as their concern for the Muslim vote bank. | | | Secular avatars are of different hues and can reinvent itself to suit one’s political chicanery. |
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http://www.liberalsindia.com/freedomfirst/ff453-06.html
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| | Ayodhya And After - Chapter 10 - Secularism As It Is |
| | The secularization of the state was then not seen as the full realization of the desired separation of politics and religion but only as a step in an ongoing offensive against religion: from a full control of religion, via a secularized state, to a full destruction of religion even in the private sphere. | | | Secularism recognizes the logical priority of the individual's choice to follow a religion, to this religion's actual claim on the individual's adherence. | | | As a synonym for secular, the word temporal is sometimes used ; as its antonym, spiritual or eternal. |
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http://www.voi.org/books/ayodhya/ch10.htm
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| | archive principles of secularism |
| | Secular principles involve for mankind a future, where there shall exist unity of condition with infinite diversity of intellect, where the subsistence of ignorance and selfishness shall leave men equal, and universal purity enable all things--noble society, the treasures of art, and the riches of the world--to be had in common. | | | The advocate of Secular education may be, and generally is, also an advocate of religion; but he would teach religion at another time and treat it as a distinct subject, too sacred for coercive admixture into the hard and vexatious routine of a school. | | | Secularism seeks the material purity of the present life, which is at once the mean and end of Secular endeavor. |
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http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~stolley/scholarship/atheism/secularism/secularism_plaintext.htm
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| | Secularism, Secular Humanism |
| | Jacques Ellul (The New Demons, 1975) was among several voices arguing that secularism was itself a form of religion and was antagonistic both to Christianity and to a true Christian humanism. | | | With the work of Christ, the city and the nation are secularized (desacralized), and the church as the temple of the Holy Spirit is what is now sacralized. | | | In all cases, Christian life in the secular world is to be carried out under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and in obedience to the will of God rather than the will of the world. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txn/seculari.htm
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| | Light & Life Vol 51 No 1 - The Fruits of Secularism |
| | We can speak of the secularism of those who deny the existence of God, as do the adherents of secular humanism, who look upon religion and any divine influence on the world and man as pure superstition; and there are not a few of these in positions of influence in our national life. | | | We can also speak of practical secularism as the way of life of those who, while not denying the existence of God or His influence on the world, in practice live their lives without recognizing that this is God’s world. | | | The word secularism is taken from the Latin word "saecularis" meaning worldly or earthly, as opposed to such terms as religious or supernatural. |
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http://www.rosary-center.org/ll51n1.htm
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| | Weekly Worker 554 - Thursday November 25 2004 |
| | Genuine secularism enshrines the equality of citizens irrespective of their faith or lack of faith. | | | Finally, the motion stated that Respect, as a “secular organisation”, is “open to those of all faiths and none, does not favour and is not beholden to any religion or religious institution”. | | | Thus secularism does indeed mean that neither religion in general nor a particular religion must be promoted by the state. |
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http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/554/secularism1.htm
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| | Promotion of Secularism |
| | In India, secularism does not mean mere separation of religion and state but, the abolition of the practice of untouchability and promotion of castelssness. | | | He said that the concept of secular state does not merely imply that the state will 'be impartial to all religions; it implies that the state will have nothing to do with religion. | | | Vidya reiterated that secularism in India was not merely a political doctrine. |
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http://www.positiveatheism.org/india/s1990b01.htm
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| | SECULARISM |
| | This Christian differentiating of the secular from the sacred is one instance or aspect of wider processes often called "secularisation": processes which involve the extension of human understanding and control over fields of life formerly so inaccessible to human science and technology that it seemed reasonable to try to manage them instead simply by prayer. | | | Christian faith encourages secularisation of this kind, by insisting on both the transcendence of God and the intelligibility of the creation, with its consequent accessibility to science and technology. | | | 6), is not to be confused with a healthy secularity or respect for the secular. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/SECULAR.HTM
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| | Secularism (Islaam.Com) |
| | Secularism is compatible with the Western concept of God which maintains that after God had created the world, He left it to look after itself. | | | For this reason, the call for secularism among Muslims is atheism and a rejection of Islam. | | | as Islam is a comprehensive system of worship (`ibadah) and legislation (Shari`ah), the acceptance of secularism means abandonment of Shari`ah, a denial of the divine guidance and a rejection of Allah’s injunctions; It is indeed a false claim that Shariah is not proper to the requirements of the present age. |
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http://www.islaam.com/Article.aspx?id=117
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| | secularism |
| | secular spirit or tendency, esp. a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/secularism
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| | The California Mission: The Challenge of Secularism: |
| | The word, "secularism," is derived from the Latin word for "world." "Secularism" refers to a system of thought and belief which explicitly or implicitly excludes God from human affairs. | | | Modern secularism is a profound challenge to Christian faith. | | | Above all, the Christian response to secularism must be grounded in prayer and in a personal renewal of faith in God and Jesus Christ within our own hearts. |
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http://www.msjc.org/CaliforniaMission/Secularism.htm
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| | Secularism Zindabad!!!! |
| | Secularism means 'the view that religious considerations should be excluded from civil affairs or public education.' It also means 'a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations.' | | | At a time, when the term secular in India seems largely to be equated with Hindu-baiting, much disquiet is being generated by some events that... | | | Since this latest move by the UPA government is related to the domain of Kashmir, it is very detrimental to the secular basis of our country and thus the national security of India. |
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http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/28koul.htm
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| | What is Secularism? |
| | Secularism is a faith, a faith in man, a faith in his future, a future without God or, as the Process theologians say, a future which is God. | | | Orthodoxy is a faith, a faith in God, a living God which it is “meet and right to hymn, to bless, to praise, to thank, to worship,” for He is a God of Mercy and Justice and Power. | | | Ecumenists and/or “secular Christians” believe a compromise is possible; that the way of the monk and the way of the world may be reconciled. |
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http://www.stvladimirs.ca/library/what-is-secularism.html
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| | A Clash of Orthodoxies |
| | And orthodox secularism, consistent with its view of what marriage is, declines to view marriage as the principle of rectitude in sexual conduct. | | | Orthodox secularism promotes the myth that there is only one basis for disbelieving its tenets: namely, the claim that God has revealed propositions contrary to these tenets. | | | Some concede that religious and even moral judgments depend on faith that cannot be rationally grounded, but they argue that secularism itself is based on a nonrational faith, that secularism must, in the end, also rest on metaphysical and moral claims that cannot be proved. |
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http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9908/articles/george.html
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| | Secularism - A tool of dividing politics |
| | For 'secular' India, secularism is not divorced between the State and religion. | | | It was the advent of democracy, not secularism, which gave the survival space for non-Christian faiths in Christendom. | | | Secularism mandated that the Christian church would not interfere in matters of the Christian State. |
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http://news.indiainfo.com/2005/02/08/0802guru.html
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| | Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society |
| | We share the ideals of a democratic society, and a secular state that does not endorse any religion, religious institution, or any religious dogma. | | | The Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society (ISIS) has been formed to promote the ideas of rationalism, secularism, democracy and human rights within Islamic society. | | | We therefore favor the firm separation of religion and state: without such a separation there can be no freedom from tyranny, and such a separation is the sine qua non for a secular state. |
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http://www.secularislam.org
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| | The Hindu : Redefining secularism |
| | That is, secularism as defined by Nehru in fact froze the Hindu social order by either nonchalance to religion or by its implied negative rebuke. | | | Later Marx, calling religion the `opium of the masses,' defined secularism to completely eschew religion, in fact to debunk the very idea of any religious adherence. | | | Hence the question is whether we should redefine secularism to make it acceptable to the masses in the polls, or capitulate to the rising fundamentalism in the country. |
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http://www.hindu.com/2004/03/18/stories/2004031801941000.htm
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| | Rationalism - The Intellectual Bedrock of Secularism |
| | And Secularism is the political expression of this rationalist attitude. | | | But while doing this the secular state need not follow the repressive policies of persecution which have so far been followed by theocratic states towards religions other than the one patronised by them. | | | And Secularism is the political expression of this Rationalist attitude. |
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http://www.hindubooks.org/sudheer_birodkar/hindu_history/rationalism.html
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| | The Hindu : Pseudo-secularism — I |
| | This position ends by giving a theoretical foundation to the charges of virulent Hindutva: the state needs a religious foundation and this can only be provided by Hinduism, the majority religion (or "true religion") of the Indian people. | | | Hinduism is tolerant, Islam is not; the Congress and Left who proclaim secularism are ignoring the cultural and historical realities of India and so are "pseudo-secularists." Unless these theses can be dealt with at a theoretical and ideological level, it seems to me to be very difficult to deal practically with the Hindutva ideological challenge. | | | But the subtraction of Hindutva from Hinduism has proved impossible for the defenders of secularism to make, since their arguments remain at an abstract level without an analysis of the historical construction of Hinduism itself. |
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http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2003/01/20/stories/2003012000481000.htm
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| | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . FEATURE . Secular Jews . November 1, 2002 PBS |
| | But "secular" includes people who may not practice their religion but who believe in God. | | | Of secular Jews, 34 percent don't believe in God. | | | MYRNA BARON (Director, New York Chapter, International Federation of Secular Humanistic Jews): Just because some secular Jews are not comfortable in a traditional temple or synagogue doesn't mean that we have to give up the wonderful aspects of Jewish community. |
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| | France - Secularism - Islam - Worldpress.org |
| | His first public initiative was the creation of a university seminar on the theme “Sects and Secularism,” running from October 2003 to June 2004 and bringing together 50 participants ranging from jurists, sociologists, and historians to representatives of various religions, even to doctors. | | | “In today’s Europe, where secularism is generally understood to mean tolerance, we must mobilize to protect the advances brought about by the law of 1905 on the separation of the churches and the state. | | | That said, at the Education League, nobody is surprised to see the issue of Islam monopolize the discussions of secularism. |
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| | secularism and turkey MetaFilter |
| | It's a discussion of how the term "secularism" is incomplete in describing what the relationship between church and state is in Turkey, and the history of what forces have brought the current situation to bear. | | | Apparently a legacy of religious and ethnic cleansing counts as a model of secularism. | | | If this assimilation was purely secular then let me ask this then, how many of those that converted to the Turkish identity also kept their former religious ties? |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/45333
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| | Technorati Tag: secularism |
| | Since I have long thought that the similarities between 'religion' and 'atheism' make some visions of a secular society a permit for the non-religious... | | | Posts tagged Secularism per day for the last 30 days. | | | Research Secularism at Questia Find quality info at the world's online library. |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/secularism
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| | Religious identification in the U.S. |
| | A random selection of Americans were asked to rate their general outlook, ranging from religious to secular: | | | Rodney Stark, a professor of sociology at the University of Washington and a co-author of "Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion" commented: "People who believe in God — and they do — who pray — and they do — are not secular, they are just unchurched. | | | Native Americans consist of 20% Baptist, 17% Roman Catholic, 17% of no organized religion, 3% tribal religion. |
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| | Secularism and the Authority of Jesus |
| | That paradigm is sometimes called secularism (from the Latin word saeculum meaning world or age). | | | Ascension Sunday challenges us to lift our eyes from this earth, to break the age old paradigm of secularism, and to see Jesus seated at the right hand of the Father. | | | The greatest challenge for us today is to move beyond the secular paradigm. |
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http://sycophants.info/secularparadigm.html
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| | Institute of Islamic Studies and Centre for Study of Society and Secularism |
| | Asghar Ali Engineer is a rights activist and heads the two organisations, Institute of Islamic Studies and Centre for Study of Society and Secularism. | | | He has authored or edited 44 books on such issues as Islam and communal and ethnic problems in India and South Asia in general. | | | Institute of Islamic Studies and Centre for Study of Society and Secularism |
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http://ecumene.org/IIS/csss.htm
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| | Agnosticism, Atheism, Humanism, & Secularism |
| | Presuppositions and Patterns of Thought Common to Both Protestantism and Secularism | | | Dialogue on the Argument From Non-Belief (ANB) as a Proposed Disproof of God's Existence (Dave Armstrong vs. Steve Conifer and Dr. Ted Drange) 174K | | | Romanticism, Wagner, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, and Me (essentially my conversion story from secularized nature mystic and occult devotee to Christianity, with reflections on the relationship of Romanticism to Christianity) |
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http://ic.net/~erasmus/RAZ470.HTM
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| | secularism from FOLDOC |
| | Thus, while atheism is a form of secularism, not every secularist is an atheist. | | | In popular usage, secularism often has the same connotations of immoralism that are imputed more strongly to atheism. | | | Sometimes the sense of the word is less strong, connoting something close to humanism, i.e., that affairs of this world should be the most important concerns for ethics and human life (it is in this sense that Aristotelianism and other classical philosophies can be described as secularist). |
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| | Centre for Study of Society and Secularism |
| | Lecture on "Secular India is possible" lectured by Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer in Kolhapur Maharashtra on 18th December 2005 in public auditorium, about 1000 citizen of Kolhapur attended the lecture. | | | The Centre for Study of Society and Secularism has been organizing this workshop in different states of India and has held workshop in M.P., Gujarat, Rajasthan, U.P. and Maharashtra. | | | The participants came from various categories like peace activist teachers, women activist and youth. |
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http://www.csss-isla.com
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| | Secularism and Jewish Survival |
| | “The majority of Jews in Israel and abroad define themselves as secular from a cultural point of view”, he said. | | | At a recent Conference on the Balance of National Strength and Security, Professor Moshe Kaveh made a passionate plea for recognition of the legitimacy of secular Jewishness and called on secular Jews to reclaim their Jewish identity. | | | Kaveh argued that the key for Jewish survival lies with secular Jews. |
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| | SECULARISM - LoveToKnow Article on SECULARISM |
| | To properly cite this SECULARISM article in your work, copy the complete reference below: | | | Holyoake founded a society inLondon which subsequently under the leadership of Charles Bradlaugh advocated the disestablishment of the Church, the abolition of the Second Chamber and other political and economic reforms. | | | As the word implies, secularism is based solely on considerations of practical morality with a view to the physical, social and moral improvement of society. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SE/SECULARISM.htm
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| | National Secular Society - National Secular Society - Home |
| | The Archbishop of Canterbury’s defence of faith schools as promoting community harmony is described by the National Secular Society as disingenuous and self-serving. | | | National Secular Society - National Secular Society - Home | | | The Equality Act has just completed its passage through Parliament in the biggest shake up for decades both in equality legislation and the way it is administered. |
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| | Alternative Secularism |
| | Atheism has always been suppressed, now much of the current membership seems unable to open up to the new possibilities for them to explain the need for secular humanism to the wider public. | | | Interested people need to be able to get information about the issues, and the range of issues, on which the churches and religions seek to maintain their dominance, and see their national organisation making the running, not trailing behind | | | The existing Humanist organisations are cramped by an inability to overcome the conservatism of their own members and are unwilling or unable to expand enough to undertake all the activities that are needed in the increasingly demanding market place for information and presentation of the rationale for secularism. |
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http://www.atheist.supanet.com
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| | New Pope Draws Line in Spain |
| | Observers say the Vatican's action signals a toughening stance against creeping secularism, which Pope Benedict has called one of the greatest evils facing Europe. | | | In a sign that new Pope Benedict XVI is playing hardball with growing secularism in Europe, the Vatican has come out strong against a same-sex marriage bill in Spain. | | | Just one day after Spain's lower house of parliament approved the bill, which would also allow gay couples to adopt children, a senior Vatican cardinal went so far as to tell Spain's civil servants to refuse to marry same-sex couples — even if means losing their job. |
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| | Why Bush threatens secularism - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America?s Newspaper |
| | Why Bush threatens secularism - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America?s Newspaper | | | The weekend before President Bush's second inauguration, 60 humanists, atheists and ethical culturalists gathered at a hotel just off Dupont Circle for an "emergency meeting" organized by the American Humanist Association. |
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050414-124744-9798r.htm
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| | Secularism |
| | The magazine displayed it as a "true missing link in the complex chain that connects dinosaurs and birds." This sort of "mistake" results from secular science's determination to make Evolution work, even when it doesn't. | | | The composite creature, on display at the National Geographic Society in Washington until late January, consists of the birdlike upper torso and the tail and feet of a small raptor. |
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