Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From the days of the French Revolution onwards a new religion has been taking possession of the souls of men-a religion of secular humanism. The main articles of this faith are that the exercise of reason and the extension of education are in themselves enough to purify and strengthen the nature of man and enable him to make the world a progressively better place; that a high standard of moral conduct can be confidently commended to the hearts of men on its own merits and by its own authority...
Luther is accused [TIME, April 1] of being the evil genius of Germany's absolutism, worse than Hitler. But in his Secular Authority: To What Extent It Should Be Obeyed, he writes: "But when a prince is in the wrong, are his people bound to follow him then too? I answer, No, for it is no one's duty to do wrong." Hardly compatible with the accusation leveled...
Protestant leaders cried: "No Popery!" Protestant opposition to Catholic secular power and influence was growing...
...Sectarian protest against the sacraments (suspicions of "grace by magic") has resulted in secular indifference to the life of grace...
...Catholicism. Such a trend has inevitably produced in history the phenomenon called clericalism, which has been the bane of Latin lands and from which we in the United States have been providentially spared. Clericalism is the pursuit of power, especially political power, by a religious hierarchy, carried on by secular methods and for purposes of social domination...