Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past, disagreement between religious and secular groups in Israel about the proper relationship between the religious establishment and the state has prevented definitive legal definition of this relationship...
...dwell on this paradox, but it is not hard to explain. Ross, Shawn and the rest have successfully set up as taste makers over a 50-year period when cultural presumptions have changed horrendously. The New Yorker remains a throwback to Matthew Arnold's Victorian faith in a secular religion of truth and beauty. Eustace Tilley, the magazine's monocled symbol, is clearly an Arnold disciple turned dandy. To be impeccable, graceful and hard-hitting all at the same time is demanding work. So is hanging on to a upper-middle-class audience without seeming frivolous or snobbish...
Aloni left Rabin's Labor Alignment coalition last year, partly in protest over the inclusion of Mafdal in the coalition. "We have religious coercion that effects legislation," she says. "The religious community can worship however it wants, but it shouldn't force me to do the same in a secular state...
...Aloni continues, "how can we negotiate with them if they can't recognize Israel? Arafat says he wants a democratic secular state in this land. Well, there is a democratic secular state here and its name is Israel. The moment the PLO is ready to put away their guns and recognize that Israel exists, then we can negotiate with them...
...these assertions, the statement adds a qualifying paragraph explaining why the idea is wrong, even though it might sound beguiling and contain an element of truth. The statement nowhere mentions the people who have promulgated the false theses, but the discussions at Hartford included references to Harvey Cox (The Secular City), Situation Ethicist Joseph Fletcher and Britain's Bishop John Robinson (Honest to God). As for the pervasiveness of the thinking exemplified in the theses, Jesuit Dulles thinks that the ideas are widespread in the Roman Catholic Church, particularly among popularizers of the late Teilhard de Chardin and "liberation...