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...legal case, brought by several civil-liberties groups, is virtually open and shut. Moore's lawyers had argued that U.S. law is founded on the Ten Commandments, which are displayed, more subtly and often surrounded by secular legal symbols, in other government buildings around the country. But federal District Judge Myron Thompson said in his ruling that Roy's Rock is "nothing less than an obtrusive year-round religious display... The only way to miss the religious or nonsecular appearance of the monument would be to walk through the Alabama State Judicial Building with one's eyes closed." A federal...
...married in 1915. In Lovers in the Red Sky, painted in 1950, six years after her death, a couple flies together through the air, as Chagall and Bella had done in so many of his other paintings. Those airborne pairs are his loveliest contribution to Western imagery, a secular version of Christianity's great floating figures, the Ascension of Christ and the Assumption of the Virgin Mary...
...world in which the promises of governments and businessmen are as reliable as those of weathermen. In Japan, where economic depression has been so sustained that people have turned to the antic Tamil films of southern India for some imported lunacy and energy, baseball has long been a secular religion, with the attendant promise of catechisms and rituals that never change. The fact that most of the local gods have migrated to America (the main one to have failed there is, of course, a Tigers star) has only deepened the general crisis of faith...
...religions get married, and so do agnostics and atheists who don't even believe in God. Even if Jesus, who was supposed to be all-forgiving, can't accept gay marriage, that doesn't mean the state cannot legally recognise it. The last time I checked, America was a secular state and its laws weren't simply an extension of Christ's teachings, as interpreted by religious hardliners. Alia Hameed Paris, France...
...group, which operated in the northeast of the country where the allied no-fly zone prevented Saddam from exercising control, had any links with Baghdad. And the reports of the meetings between Iraq and al-Qaeda also suggest that bin Laden had declined to pursue a relationship with the secular dictator. Reports of the interrogations of the most senior captive al-Qaeda men also suggest that they deny any link between the organization and Iraq...