Word: secularistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moral factor in the country . . . Bound up with the Christian throne, the Church of England has . . . been a growing rather than a declining Christian influence . . . We find it hard to see how . . . God's truth . . . will better be served by a disestablishment which would make our society formally secularist...
...temper of a secularist age is penetrating even to Ahmedabad: some Jain priests have recently been seen to remove their masks in public, to eat and drink in restaurants and to use lamps without thought for the safety of moths. Last week things went even farther. One hundred of the boldest priests met and announced that, since intercession with the gods is industrial employment like any other, they had formed themselves into the Ahmedabad Jain Temple Priests Trade Union. From temple committees they demanded: an $8 minimum monthly wage, one day off a week, seven days' paid sick leave...
...France suffers from an older, more stubborn and more pervasive division-the division between clerical and anticlerical. It is a division which makes two parties where there could have been one, which splits the non-Communist left into anticlerical Socialists and pro-Catholic M.R.P., the non-Gaullist right into secularist Radical Socialists and religionist Independents...
...more often branded as 'undemocratic' or 'un-American.' This, it seems to me, is a telltale sign of the growing totalitarianization of 'democracy.' American democracy is traditionally a tolerant political way of life. Many would now like to make it a set of secularist dogmas by which all things, even the moral order and religious beliefs, are measured. The professional birth-controllers, the divorce apologists (perhaps, soon, the euthanasiasts) and the aggressive secularists generally more and more have taken to wrapping their beliefs in the Stars and Stripes. They are increasingly ready...
After the war, Dominican Bruckberger got into hot water again: he urged mercy for certain collaborationists, and founded a controversial magazine called the Trojan Horse, in which he attacked not only the Communists but also the "Jacobinism" of France's secularist democracy. Pretty soon his superiors sent him off to the Sahara, where he spent a year as a Foreign Legion chaplain...