Word: secularize
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...West’s gospel today is of the secular sort. He preaches that democracy is “in crisis” and that “we need to be reminded of the intellectual and political resources available in the democratic tradition that we can build on in order to deal” with those threats...
...young Americans and young Iraqis to kill each other in a continuing cycle of violence in no way furthers the antiterrorism cause. Getting rid of Saddam was a good idea. But replacing his secular dictatorship with a fundamentalist theocracy would not be so good. Iraq will probably have a civil war that will eclipse and consume any puppet democracy that the U.S. creates. Stay the course? That was our motto in Vietnam. Daniel T. Arcieri Blue Point...
...direction, were trying to give a founding narrative to a process that Europe’s citizens have often seen as bureaucratic and distant. Of course, Europe’s complicated past was ever present: A gigantic statue of Pope Innocent X hovered over the signing of the secular document. Rome, rich with architectural symbols of power—those of the ancient empire, of the papacy and of Mussolini’s fascism—was host yet again to a dream of Europe...
...from all over Europe, united in international coalitions, the strongest of which are the Christian Democrats and the Socialists. Given new authority under the Constitution, its members were asserting their power in the new order by wrangling with the new Commission. Their reaction is also a sign of the secular and progressive values which most parliamentarians identify with the European project...
...that is likely, then why all the fuss in Rome last week? The Roman performance was still worthwhile. It was the closest that Europe ever has come to a democratic vision of itself—cosmopolitan, secular, with institutions to encourage both free trade and a redistribution of resources. As Pope Innocent X stared on, he probably did not understand what was taking place. The dream of Europe that the men in front of him were attempting to stage was not his dream, nor that of those other power-hungry leaders who once aimed to unite the continent from Paris...