Word: atheistic
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...liberal on issues like contraception, gay rights, women's equality and a multi-faith society. There are very orthodox believers who nonetheless respect the freedom and conscience of others as part of their core understanding of what being a Christian is. They have no problem living next to an atheist or a gay couple or a single mother or people whose views on the meaning of life are utterly alien to them--and respecting their neighbors' choices. That doesn't threaten their faith. Sometimes the contrast helps them understand their own faith better...
...Christians in their walk with Christ unless he or she can “subscribe without reserve,” to the tenets the Christianity. At the same time, the clause even explicitly affirms that recent converts—people who might have grown up in Jewish, Muslim, or atheist families—are eligible to lead the group if they subscribe to the Christian faith...
...China's officially atheist Communist Party couldn't agree more. As the country tackles the negative side effects of two decades of unfettered economic growth-most notably a growing urban-rural income divide and burgeoning social unrest-Beijing's leaders are looking to soothe the masses by filling a spiritual vacuum left by the demise of Marxist ideology. In landmark comments earlier this month, China's top religious official, Ye Xiaowen, rejected decades of state ambivalence toward religion by telling the state's Xinhua News Agency that "religion is one of the important social forces from which China draws strength...
...WANTED: ATHEIST SCHOOL CHEF...
...from the anti-discrimination law, an important law that guarantees homosexual individuals the same rights enjoyed by everyone else. Doing so discriminates against other religious groups that might have appealed for exemptions from the law and have been denied, and it constitutes a slap in the face for my atheist friends who can never use religion as an excuse to be placed above the law. Worst of all, granting Catholic Charities this exemption would render the state vulnerable to countless appeals for religious exemptions, placing them in a disastrous position of having to evaluate different religions. As Locke delineated, such...