Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years the N.C.C. has appeared to be little more than the Americans for Democratic Action at prayer, parroting a liberal political line. Appropriately, its newest antagonist is the Institute on Religion and Democracy, an ecclesiastical clone of the secular neoconservative movement. The I.R.D.'s leader, a Meth odist minister, charged last week that the N.C.C. is "captive to a left-wing philosophy which is not compatible with what most members of local churches believe...
...five-story country club of glass and steel. It is nicknamed the Biggest Meat Market by its 5,000 youthful and mostly single, upper-middle-management members, who pay an initial $900 to join. The E.B.C. is more than a Dating Game in sweatsuits, however. It is a latterday, secular cathedral built to the glory of the body. The $20 million club contains ten tennis courts, a complete indoor golf facility, eight handball-racquetball courts, three squash courts, a basketball court, saunas, whirlpools, massage rooms, sleeping rooms, steam rooms, sunrooms, library, nursery, card room, an outdoor restaurant and a crowded...
Lukoffs "embassy," founded only last year, has set up permanent shop in the former Chilean embassy (all foreign embassies have moved out of Jerusalem). At a time of dwindling religious and secular support for Israel, it acts as a center for visiting Christians and seeks to rally friendship for the Jewish state among the tens of millions of Evangelicals around the world. Most of the 30 full-time volunteer staffers, and many contributors to the monthly budget of $15,000, are Charismatics. Virtually all are millenarians, who believe that Zionism is part of God's design for the days...
...admiringly: "You look like our Prophet." Such appearances were deceiving. Naipaul is a man of the West, through and through. He may have grown up as an alien in Trinidad, then a British colony, but his escape from that subjugation came not through mysticism or political revolution but through secular education, a mastery of Western intellectual traditions and the English language. His unique combination of experience and skills helped make him a distinguished novelist. In such non-fiction works as India: A Wounded Civilization and The Return of Eva Peron, he also emerged as an impressive interpreter and critic...
...identifying with the Judeo-Christian West, Sadat alienated himself from the Islamic world, facilitating religious, as well as secular, opposition to the peace process, Sid Ahmad said...