Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drawl rises to a high pitch because he knows you are going to come back at him with a contradiction, a challenge, a word about reality. Otherwise, though, he remains calm; no more than a second or two passes before he's ready with a lengthy answer. Recognizing his secular inarticulateness, he nonetheless slides over questions about the nuclear arms race, the state of the economy--ultimately, all the issues of the election. And he knows that this new-right pitch has shocked and disgusted even his fellow ministers: "When the majority of the religious people in this city view...
Since Ronald Reagan is the favorite of Falwell and Co., this looks like an election-eve attempt to stir a religious backlash against Reagan. But Lear, a contributor to John Anderson's campaign, denies partisan intent. PAW involves a wide assortment of public figures both secular and spiritual (among them: Editor Norman Cousins, former FCC chairman Newton Minow, Notre Dame President Theodore Hesburgh, Ecumenical Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, President M. William Howard of the National Council of Churches). PAW, moreover, is only one of several groups. Similar alarms have been sounded in recent weeks by the bishops of the Episcopal...
...sense the whole episode was a tempest in a cappuccino cup stirred by an example taken out of context. But the fuss reflected secular fears that the Pope might be returning to a view once held by many Catholic theologians that sexual pleasure even in marriage is deeply suspect. That is far from the case. In sermons and writings John Paul has dealt extensively with marriage, and often places a remarkably unpontifical emphasis on matters of the flesh. The book of Genesis, the Pontiff once declared, shows "the pure value of the body...
That view was changed by three causes. Such trends as the legalization of abortion, the spread of pornography and agitation for homosexual rights convinced many evangelicals that, in Falwell's words, "a minority of secular humanists and amoralists are running this country and taking it straight to hell." Carter's "failings," in their eyes, deepened their despair. The last straw for many evangelicals was a 1978 attempt by the Internal Revenue Service to take away the tax-exempt status of private schools suspected of practicing racial discrimination...
...combatting the terrorists and by the rising menace of Turkish Communist militants. They were also concerned about increasing signs of Islamic fanaticism; a rally in Konya earlier this month that attracted 70,000 people struck them as a threat to Atatürk's concept of a secular society, which the Turkish military is pledged under the existing constitution to uphold. The generals reportedly gave the politicians a final warning on Aug. 29 in an effort to get them to accept Prime Minister Demirel's plan for early elections as a way out of the parliamentary deadlock. When...