Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rather colossal misunderstanding pervades this campus. Due to a chain of events too intricate to detail here, a widely held notion contends this is exam week. But this week's true identity increasingly demands attention: It is the week of the Super Bowl, America's secular holiday, the single most commonly shared American event, the football game which invariably and understandably fails to match its build...
...Stanley Hauerwas: "This search for a humane way of killing is a bunch of sentimental secular humanism. Why do you want it to be humane? To reassure yourself...
...King's importance lies in his willingness to disobey a given law because there is a higher one," said Bryan K. Askew '85. "All students, Black as well as white, should be willing to sacrifice a secular law for one that transcends human error...
...Bridgeport Baptist Academy must be "born again," regard teaching as a spiritual calling and live by biblical standards. They must have some college training, preferably at a Christian institution, but a bachelor's degree is not essential. Nonetheless, some teachers at these schools are highly qualified by any secular standard: Allen, for instance, not only has a teaching degree but a master's in divinity, both from Christian colleges...
Many parent sponsors of the new Christian academies have a deeply rooted animosity toward public schools. In their view, the schools have adopted a godless philosophy of "secular humanism" by requiring classroom discussion of such touchy subjects as sex education and feminism. Be cause secular humanism is in conflict with the Bible, as these parents see it, it is a sin for them to send their children to public schools. Says Blanche Reinbolt, who has three children at Bridgeport Baptist Academy: "I've seen what certified public school teachers have done for my kids, and it wasn...