Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of movie folk who had become "born-again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ." Among Christian Life's galaxy of "sincere and effective soul-winners": Stars Jane (The Outlaw) Russell and Roy Rogers, Starlet Colleen Townsend. Colleen, said the article, had underscored her conversion by leaving the "secular movie industry," which has "been one of Satan's most effective weapons for corrupting the morals and misleading the youth of the world." None of the others, however, had yet heard a similar call...
Capitalism, according to Demant, had a kind of theology all its own. "Capitalism was part of the whole movement known as liberalism ... It was this liberalism which dispensed with 'the sacred' as a real element in existence and gave the 'secular' all the religious valuations previously accorded to the divine realm...
...revolution are by definition virtuous, while those [on the other side] are by definition 'fascists,' 'imperialists' and 'warmongers' . . . There is a certain pathos in the fact that these illusions are merely a 'hard' variety of the soft illusions which Christian and secular sentimentalists hold who talk so endlessly about the 'dignity of man' without any Christian understanding of the total problem of human existence...
After tracing the history and importance of religious toleration in the U.S. Conant stated.... "public institutions, including tax-supported schools, shall be secular... Long ago this University chose the secular path." But, Conant pointed out, "To equate secular with Godless and the Godless with immoral... is surely a fallacious line of argumentation...
...secular institutions of American society draw their content of moral and spiritual nourishment from the common denominator of all religious faiths," Conant said. "It seems to me important that American public opinion lay emphasis on our ability to agree on a secular basis for moral conduct...