Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that it viewed the papal pilgrimage as a way to rehabilitate Poland in the eyes of the world. But if the authorities thought they could manipulate the Polish-born Pontiff, they were mistaken. John Paul was determined to speak his mind and his heart, however uncomfortable he made his secular hosts. As the Pope moved across Poland, he showed by word and gesture that he understood the meaning of the euphoric parenthesis of freedom that Poles had known for 16 months after the creation of the independent Solidarity trade union. Worse, in the government's view, millions of Poles...
Author Paul Johnson in his book Modern Times [June 6] may be correct in blaming the decline of moral standards for the atrocities of the 20th century, but those committed in the name of religion and morality should also be remembered-for example, the Crusades. It is not secularization or moral relativism that has created the horrors of our age, but rather mankind's consistent willingness to sacrifice a fellow being for the sake of some ideal, be it secular or religious...
Ultra-Orthodox Jews attack secular Israelis-and each other...
...Orthodox Jews have a birth rate that is three times the national average, and they also constitute the largest group moving into Jerusalem. As a result, they have been trying to take over areas near the overcrowded Mea Shearim and Geula sections, offering twice the market value to entice secular Israelis to sell their homes and threatening those who refuse to move. At least one family has been burned...
Other acts of violence have involved disputes over observance of Jewish law. The youths are more zealous in their beliefs and more pugnacious than their elders, who are often eager to urge them on. The new militants regard other Orthodox Jews as compromisers and secular Israelis as grievous sinners and abhor proselytizing by the small group of Christian missionaries in the country...