Word: secularation
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...have confused being good with being peaceful. Some of the world's heroes have had to resort to violence to solve their problems. Take, for instance, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson in the American Revolution. They not only gained America's independence but also set up a secular system of government that has since served as a model for the rest of the world. Chan Jan Lin, Singapore...
...have confused being good with being peaceful. Some of the world's heroes have had to resort to violence to solve their problems. Take, for instance, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson in the American Revolution. They not only gained America's independence but also set up a secular system of government that has since served as a model for the rest of the world. Chan Jan Lin, Singapore...
...that may make him to YouTube what Graham was to the arena. "He could be one of the most important 21st century Christian leaders," says Bible professor and evangelical blogger Ben Witherington. He and several other thinkers feel that in a "post-Christian America," whose basic assumptions are increasingly secular, the faith needs someone who can defend its tenets in the argot of the day. Bell does this effortlessly. The question now is whether he can sell his approach to the rest of Evangelicalism or whether, as Christianity Today editor Andy Crouch puts it, he will "remain more...
Hosting such secular holiday gatherings has not always passed without comment...
...failings and weaknesses of those regimes, very much the way that scapegoating the Jews served some Christian and anti-Semitic rulers in their time. Arab leaders who sought peace with Israel, such as King Abdullah I of Jordan and Anwar Sadat of Egypt, were assassinated by rivals. Religious and secular factions competed with one another over whose aggression against Israel was bloodier and more intimidating.Moreover, the war against Israel required the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs to permanent refugee status, lest their productive redeployment mean (as Cairo radio put it in 1957) “the final...