Word: secularism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After reading a number of poems including, "In the Secular Night" and "Cell," Atwood said that many of the other poems in her book have a lighter tone...
...secular, materialist orientation of our society may be an understandable phenomenon in light of our society's "diversity." But that doesn't mean it's not regrettable as well...
America has become a society that makes too much of its living by marketing its own Impure Thoughts: a corrupt dynamic. Secular realists reply to the idea of abstinence with some snorting variant on what Hemingway's Jake Barnes told Brett Ashley at the end of The Sun Also Rises: "Isn't it pretty to think so?" (Jake's problem was not sexual indulgence, of course, but the reverse--grim chastity enforced by a war wound.) Get real...
However, if Robertson really looked at the lessons of the past, he would recognize what every grade schooler is taught: that the earliest Americans often came to this land to escape religious persecution. Our founders, from George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, enshrined the principles of a secular state into our Constitution. Indeed, it was Jefferson who first discussed the "wall of separation" between church and state...
...fence around the venue. A few old hands say the culture has become more dissolute and meanspirited. But for every thug, there are a dozen Deadheads ripe for a religious experience. Hey, everyone has to believe in something. And in this woozy age--when the spiritual and the secular often blend, and born-again Christians are rivaled in fervor by devotees of Elvis, Mr. Spock and Crow T. Robot--it was no surprise to see signs announcing that JERRY...