Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among the Y2K-worried there are also more secular survivalists, believers in the worst-case scenarios who, while they may be Christians too, don't know or care whether the chaos they foresee is any part of God's plan. They are just sure something bad is coming. One of the best known is Ed Yourdon, a computer theorist whose book Time Bomb 2000 is in its 12th printing. Yourdon and his wife are moving from Manhattan to an adobe house near Taos, N.M., that has solar panels and soon a windmill to provide power. "There are so many things...
...coming year, as Y2K becomes a more familiar problem, the ranks of secular Y2K survivalists may grow. But most early "roosters"--people who see apocalypse on the millennial horizon--came to their conclusions through a prism of religious belief. Though millennialism hinges upon the notion of Christ's return, there are pockets of religious Year 2000 cultism even in nations that are mostly non-Christian. Chen Tao, for instance, is a Taiwan-based group of cultists whose beliefs combine ufo lore with rough-and-ready bits of Christianity. In 1997 a group of them settled in Garland, Texas, to await...
...accusations against liberals go, anti-religious fever is among many conservatives' favorite standbys. According to these conservatives, religion in the United States suffers at the hands of liberal elites who run an obsessively secular society. For some reason, the specific names of the anti-religious, liberal bogeymen of the political world never get mentioned. Perhaps the fact that there are so many of them obviates the need to identify specific individuals. But we may rest assured, they tell us, that there exists a wide variety of such specters...
Derek C. Araujo '99 is a physics concentrator living in Winthrop House. He is the president and founder of the Harvard Secular Society...
...haredim, whose impact on politics in Israel is increasing, are (a) radical Palestinians (b) ultra-Orthodox Jews (c) secular Jews (d) conservative Palestinians...