Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thank God for a man like the Rev. Jerry Falwell, who tells it like it is regarding America's national sins. As far as I am concerned, there is no difference between the secular and sacred...
...speech was an aptly symbolic ending to the Pope's spectacular American tour. Throughout it he had propounded a vision of justice and unselfish dedication that rebuked the secular and self-indulgent elements in American culture. Toward the end of the journey, John Paul had turned increasingly to internal Roman Catholic Church issues. On these matters, too, his message was uncompromising. The theme was, in the words of one strategically placed Vatican official, "that all the test and trial after the Second Vatican Council is ended. He doesn't care how much opposition he encounters." Nowhere is that...
Since Sagan clearly wrote the book for a general public, he should have trodden gingerly when he encountered political and religious issues. His consistent bumbling in these spheres is the unintentional leit-motif of Broca's Brain. When in doubt. Sagan shies away from the secular implications of his lofty ideas. In the course of declaring, for example, that we will one day have robots for garbagemen (at current prices, the human version are "expendable"). Sagan mentions hastily that "the effective re-employment of those human beings must, of course be arranged; but...that should not be too difficult." Such...
...they interjected themselves into debates on legalized birth control. Such campaigns seemed to give credibility to Paul Blanshard, prolific anti-Catholic pamphleteer. His widely read American Freedom and Catholic Power (1949) declared, "The Catholic people of the U.S. are not citizens but subjects in their own religious commonwealth. The secular as well as the religious policies of their church are made in Rome by an organization that is alien in spirit and control...
...religions have changed and suffered secular corrosions, despite signs of revival in recent years. The Catholic Church is even enjoying a certain popularity today among non-Catholics who feel a nostalgic tug of traditionalism, who feel that the church still represents values (family, moral discipline) that have tumbled and collapsed elsewhere in the society. Many Protestants and even agnostics send their children to parochial schools because they sense a moral safety there...