Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...separated from his person; therefore where religion involves political decision it becomes a legitimate issue. For example, the people have a right to know the views of a Quaker on pacifism, or a Christian Scientist's view on medical aid, or a Catholic's view on the secular influences of the Vatican...
...further asked why Protestants are reluctant to vote for a Catholic. I answered: "Some Protestants are hesitant about voting for a Catholic because the Catholic Church is not only a religious but a secular institution which sends and receives ambassadors from secular states...
Protestants and Catholics, threatened by the common dangers of Marxist enmity and secular indifference, are in many places drawing closer and closer together in the modern world. At last week's pilgrimage to Roland's cottage, the bankers and farmers, miners, office workers and their wives, who are carrying on the faith of the embattled camisards, renewed their sense of what is now a faraway tradition, listening to a sermon out of doors from a collapsible pulpit, and studying such Huguenot relics as a clandestine pastor's flat hat that can fold into the shape...
...cannot be separated from his person.'' said North Carolina Baptist Graham. "The religious issue is deeper than in 1928. People are better informed today." Protestants might be hesitant to vote for Kennedy. Graham added, because the Roman Catholic Church is "not only a religious but also a secular institution, with its own ministers and ambassadors...
Public prayer at civic functions is permissible only if it is doctrinally uncompromised. "Our national habit of utilizing prayer as a sort of ecclesiastical garnish to all manner of secular dishes ought to make the church circumspect." No prayer should suppress "the cardinal fact that access to God is by Jesus Christ and by him alone. To portray God, in prayer, as the good-natured old man accessible to all on any terms is to bely the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ...