Word: secularization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Yikes. The Republicans, particularly those who are less than secular in their power bases, have attempted yet again to reduce a complicated issue to empty rhetoric...
...nothing new in the upper echelons of the Republican Party. Playing the faith card in order to galvanize against a legislative privilege, however, represents a new perversion of our political leaders. Students should be concerned, not only because it threatens our freedom to dissent and operate freely in a secular academic sphere, but because it threatens to shepherd judges into power who will influence our lives and narrow our freedoms as individual Americans long after Dr. Frist has been replaced in Washington...
...whom don't want to be bothered with God right now." But influence can flow both ways. Early in his freshman year, Straub found himself waking up after a couple of drunken nights, suffering a spiritual hangover of guilt. Now he leads a weekly Bible study in his secular frat. It's a daunting challenge, but he draws strength from Paul's letter to the Ephesians, in which the Apostle urges believers to "put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil." The idea "is very manly...
...part of both institutions cannot partition their lives and their actions into non-overlapping circles without being false to their religion. The inherent roles of most religions are to prescribe, in some manner, a set of behaviors that they deem moral. Human actions, even when involved in secular, civic affairs, involve morality simply due to the fact that people are expected to make ethical decisions as a part of their lives. It is fully within the right, and even the duty, of the Catholic Church to declare not only a moral opinion, but also a set of suggested moral actions...
...practice, this has come to manifest itself in a painfully obvious tone of condescension towards religion and religious institutions. While liberals have an almost reflexive negative response to what they perceive to be unfair assaults on their morality by religious people, they often attempt to impose their own secular morality on religious people and implicitly chastise them for their “irrationality” or “narrow-mindedness...