Word: secularization
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...they were hanging in Florida strip clubs it raises some questions. Maybe Bin Laden's reach extends beyond religious zealots or even those posing as religious zealots to those who are not religious in any traditional sense. Maybe this means that Bin Laden has joined forced with secular terrorists like the kind we saw in the 70s, hijackers who didn't invoke the Koran or the name of God but used the leftist rhetoric of the time. (Remember the Munich Olympics in 1972? I don't think the Koran ever got mentioned as Black September terrorists held and eventually slaughtered...
...these are only titles. "Sheba" is simply an alternate spelling of Saba, the kingdom in modern-day Yemen where she is said to have reigned for a score of years beginning about 950 B.C. And while Cleopatra, the other storied beauty of Middle Eastern royalty, is mentioned in contemporary secular texts, the Queen of Sheba appears only in religious works - not the most authoritative source...
...racism after U.S. and Israeli delegates walked out - Jewish activists say they have begun to wield more influence. "The French leadership now sees us as its natural partner and turns to us to represent the interest of French Jews," says Haim Musicant, director of crif, an umbrella organization of secular French Jewish groups...
...these are only titles. "Sheba" is simply an alternate spelling of Saba, the kingdom in modern-day Yemen where she is said to have reigned for a score of years beginning about 950 B.C. And while Cleopatra, the other storied beauty of Middle Eastern royalty, is mentioned in contemporary secular texts, the Queen of Sheba appears only in religious works--not the most authoritative source...
...hold back, he says "On the basis of what we've seen and heard, we can assume hundreds of millions." Along with Graham, says Timothy George, dean of Beeson Divinity School, Bright led evangelicals out of self-imposed isolation into their current rich (if bittersweet) engagement with the secular world. A tally of CCC grads among today's evangelical leaders, he adds, would be "enormous...