Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world-renowned Harvard child psychiatrist will testify in a closely watched suit in which fundamentalist Christians have charged that Alabama school children are being indoctrinated into the "religion of secular humanism...
This relationship could be the most vital, sacred-to-secular crossover in The Name of the Rose. But, while both Connery and Slater are more than competent, Connery's William comes off as too wise, too crime-smart, too much the man who has the answers before you ask the questions. Too supernatural...
...will not take the plunge just yet. Instead, he gave his supporters a year to round up 3 million signatures from voters who pledge that "they will pray, that they will work, that they will give toward my election." In a finale that no secular politician would risk, Robertson asked every member of the audience, live and remote, to give $100 on the spot. A check, cash or a credit-card number would...
Robertson does not have to think of new ways to be provocative. His assaults on "secular humanists" and the Supreme Court, his oblique allusions to the superiority of "Christians" as he defines them, aroused a backlash even before his announcement. Education Secretary William Bennett, a staunch conservative Reaganaut, condemned some of Robertson's rhetoric as "invidious sectarianism that must be renounced in the strongest terms." People for the American Way, a liberal organization that has fought a guerrilla campaign against the religious right, produced a videotape with a telling sequence in which the preacher claims to have diverted Hurricane Gloria...
...peace envisioned in the West. Syria not only rejects the existence of an Israeli state, it has little use for a Palestinian state. Syria and its favorite Lebanese terror group, the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, have a different vision. An Associated Press dispatch summarizes it nicely: "The secular SSNP seeks the merger of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, pre-Israel Palestine, Iraq, Kuwait and Cyprus" -- Cyprus! -- "into a Greater Syria...