Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home in London. "My records sold all over Europe, but I was not a man of show business," Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, told Turkish reporters. "I was feeling lost. But once I read the Koran I took refuge in the guidance of Allah. This took the place of secular things. All my concepts have changed." Indeed. Islam, 37, also chided those who let music take "the place of Allah...
...always reflect reality. For example, the Jewish state derives its reason for being from ancient texts that have little relationship to liberal theories about the consent of the governed. Yet Israel is a vigorous democracy. By contrast, the 1968 Palestinian National Covenant calls for the establishment of a secular democracy even though, as O'Brien notes, "the rulers of the region, in practice, assume and enforce the consent of those they govern, as the rulers of the region have done from time immemorial...
Both Labor and Likud have had to concede control over religious issues that inhibit the behavior of the largely secular nation, such as halting public transportation and the national airline on the Sabbath. Without the religious parties to form a Parliamentary majority, pre-unity governments were helpless: in 1976 the Labor Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had to resign in the aftermath of a tiff with Orthodox leaders about breaking the Sabbath...
...Paul II has devoted great attention to establishing a carefully balanced policy on political activism for Roman Catholic clergy. On the one hand, he staunchly advocates social justice and wants priests and nuns to do likewise. On the other, he has warned the clergy about becoming too involved in secular affairs and about the dangers of Marxist ideology, especially in Latin America. The second theme was driven home in a stern 1984 Instruction on the Theology of Liberation, defining the "deviations" that the Vatican found in certain versions of the radical movement known as liberation theology...
...going to move exams back to make life easier for people who celebrate Christmas, that's discriminating. Better move exams back to November to make Channukah free of worries. Better move them back to October to make Thanksgiving angst-free for secular types. Better move them back to May to make Arbor Day less nerve-wracking...