Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self-interest and recognizing the disparities among human beings, accurately reflects life's realities, and that socialism is fundamentally Utopian. The socialist vision, which in its Marxist version is cloaked as a "scientific" law of history, suggests that under a right and just system all men can become the secular equivalent of saints, choosing to work in harmony for a common goal. The quintessential capitalist, whether or not he is religious, rejects the idea of man's perfectibility on earth and asks the socialist this question: If and when men become saints, socialism might indeed be able to fulfill...
Marxism-Leninism, frequently known as Communism, is the governing force in the Soviet Union and its East bloc satellites, as well as in China, Mongolia, North Korea, Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba, Albania and Yugoslavia. The most repressive variant of socialism, Marxism-Leninism is a kind of secular religion, preaching the necessity of class warfare, the dictatorship of the proletariat and the concentration of near total power in a tightly structured party that is supposedly the vanguard of the revolutionary masses. Communism is dogmatic in its determination to abolish private property and nationalize the means of production as the first...
Most African Christians defended Carr's style of political Christianity, including his support of black guerrillas in Rhodesia and South Africa. But many were afraid that he had made the organization too secular. The conference could "speak with eloquence on political issues, but had no spiritual message," says one church analyst. Nor was Carr above using the most sacred themes for political ends. Defending the guerrillas, he told the last All Africa Assembly, in 1974: "In accepting the violence of the cross, God, in Jesus Christ, sanctified violence into a redemptive instrument." Such comments helped dry up vital funding...
...they had the opportunity to exercise the principle of "self-determination" in those areas that Jordan had invaded and held. In Jordan itself, such Palestinians are the majority of the citizens, and serve as high officials and members of the Jordanian government. Yet they did not create a "Democratic Secular State." Why? The reason lies in the intentions of the PLO leaders...
They are like tumbleweeds, cut from their roots, blowing with every change of the secular winds...