Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began with the negation of God. This was the fundamental point of their educational system--the negation of everything in disagreement with their philosophy, beginning with the ultimate. Faith in God was substituted with faith in the communist regime, particularly in the deified communist leaders. The goal of this "secular religion" manufactured in Moscow was to supersede the church and belief in God with a host of communist demigods, starting with Lenin and Stalin and ending with Rakosi for Hungarian consumption, Georghiu Dei for Rumanian, Boleslaw Bierut for Polish, and Wilhelm Pieck for East German. By this device the communists...
...action, quick support for Halton came from Trenton Bishop George W. Ahr, who said he will leave the chaplain at Princeton "for the present," declared that the key issue in the dispute is "the right of a priest charged with the spiritual care of Catholic students in a secular university to speak out in defense of the faith and morals of those committed to his care." Added Halton: "The teaching of some Princeton professors has done and is doing graver disservice to the religious and moral traditions of American democracy than all the writings of Karl Marx taken together...
Nehru spoke the simple truth. Out of the bloody communal riots which racked India in August 1947 has emerged a vast secular state in which 320 million Hindus and 40 million Moslems live in relative peace. Against all the predictions of the Blimps, and the warning of Winston Churchill that power was being turned over to "men of straw." Indian democracy has survived to hold the world's two largest free elections; and against the immensity of its problems, even to have survived was triumph...
...separated in time by some 250 years. Dominating them all is the rough-stoned Palazzo Vecchio, with its narrow, Tuscan-Gothic windows. At right angles stands the triple-arched Loggia dei Lanzi (named for the German lancers quartered there by the Medici), which many critics consider the most beautiful secular building in Florence. Between the two is the short, narrow street which Mannerist Painter Giorgio di Vasari created as a tour de force in perspective, leading to the Arno...
India got its independence and was partitioned into a secular new India and a Moslem Pakistan amid a Hindu-Moslem blood bath, Moslem Suhrawardy stayed anchored in India's Calcutta, offended because he was offered what he considered a lowly Cabinet job in Pakistan. No enthusiast for a theocratic Moslem state anyway, he made his home in India until India's tax collectors clamped down on his business, rugs and 1947 Buick...