Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another legacy of this trip is a heightened prestige for the papacy, even among secular observers. Significantly, the London Times said in an editorial: "John Paul leaves Britain carrying with him the affection and admiration of far more Britons than he arrived with." Columnist James Cameron, who calls himself an agnostic, wrote in the influential Guardian: "I could rather wish we had a few more Popes around, if they were as benevolent and rational as this one seems to be." In the crowd at Glasgow, one skeptical businessman remarked, "I have tremendous admiration for this man and what...
...states are most worried by the thought of a Shi'ite government coming to power in Baghdad, thereby creating the conditions for a Shi'ite alliance that would include Iran, Iraq and Syria. Such an alliance could carry with it an Islamic fundamentalist force that could topple secular Muslim governments throughout the gulf...
...subjugation. To answer, there is only the still developing idea that a new sort of Christianity is possible. Or rather, an old sort--a Christianity along the lines suggested by King, by the Latin Americans, and by Christ himself. And then there is this. No other solution, from secular Marxism to rational capitalism, has changed the world too much for the better either...
There are even 1,800 people, who shear the sheep, shoot the geese and occasionally eat penguin eggs. Almost all of the residents are of Scottish, Irish or Welsh descent and passionately claim allegiance to the distant monarchy that many of them have never seen (one of the three secular holidays celebrated every year is April 21, Her Majesty's birthday). And now there are about 5,000 Argentine troops who declare that the place is theirs...
...world that seemed simpler and safer-if not always in reality, then at least in the idealized views of TV programmers of the day. It is probably no accident that the Christian Broadcasting Network's over-the-air and cable services rely heavily on wholly secular reruns from the self-confident and squeaky-clean '50s. Adults are likely to be wistful, and children intrigued, about a time when society's rules were clearer and conformity with them more satisfying-and when, as awestruck viewers of The Millionaire (1955-60) have learned, a dollar was really a dollar...