Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must not make a God of Government. Liberalism is moving into the churches, and that has invited the tidal wave of secular humanism* engulfing this country and the world ... Now, I am not holier than thou. I am not in a position to judge. But I gotta level with you: we become part of what we condone...
...1970s, fundamentalist Christians began using "secular humanism" as a term of opprobrium for nonreligious education. It has grown into a New Rightist code word for the precepts and practices of almost anyone this side of Communism who disagrees with them, including liberals, feminists, atheists, civil libertarians, internationalists...
...What shall be the deciding factor, religious law or secular law?" asked the Labor Party's Yaakov Tzur in the Knesset, raising the larger question before the Begin government. Education and Culture Minister Zevulun Hammer, an NRP leader who is not opposed to the Old City excavation, equivocated in his reply, reflecting the government's dilemma. "We must follow the law of the state," he said, "keeping in mind the respect we must have for the halacha [religious...
...will further open the order to change. Yet both see the present discord as the sort of storm that Ignatius Loyola regarded as useful. Says Father Thomas Cullen, an American missionary in Brazil: "There is always going to be tension within the Jesuits between the sacred and the secular...
...messages. On any given Sunday, a good quarter of the city is up there picnicking. The kids are throwing food and the tacitly married are trying to have some semblance of a familial good time. which is no paean to "people are people" and all the mindless meanderings of secular humanism. Rather. it's that nobody bothers with all the posters and the statues and the tanks because who needs to think about them? When you get right down to it, they all represent the same thing, another drunken dream that got hopelessly fucked...