Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parishioners are concerned that the construction of the new Harvard office building will dwarf their small chapel and keep light from streaming through their stained glass windows (Harvard denies that the structure will be so intimidating). Of course, there's nothing new in the idea of the commercial and secular overpowering the sacred; a look at Manhattan shows us any number of churches dwarfed by skyscrapers, and even on Fifth Avenue, it's not clear that St. Patrick's Cathedral is any taller than Bergdorf Goodman. Well, this is America, a secular society with a capitalist economy, and commercial buildings...
These concerns led me to take a role in atheist campus activism. I co-founded and now preside over both the Harvard Secular Society and the international Campus Freethought Alliance. The CFA is an umbrella organization comprising some 100 student atheist and humanist groups, including...
Putting "their faiths to the test" might be an appropriate comparison in the religious realm but hardly in the secular vs. the religious. Castro and Marxism have failed miserably, a demonstrable fact. I am a believer in an omniscient and loving God, as is John Paul II, but I can't prove I'm right. Nor can the Pope--that's faith. And as you pointed out, "the Catholic Church will survive the death of the 264th Pope," while few believe the Cuban revolution will outlive Castro. ROBERT F. MORAN Methuen, Mass...
...that it is immoral for the American people to support a President during a time of peace and prosperity simply because his personal life is not "virtuous." This reasoning can lead to a nearly fascist conclusion, concentrating the morals of society in its political leadership, which was elected for secular purposes and has not abused its power over the American people...
...some 40 altarpieces in various towns in northern Italy--Bergamo, Recanati, Jesi. Neither these nor the masterpiece of his religious work, the powerful, almost neurotically emotive Lamentation, circa 1530, in Monte San Giusto, could be lent, and the result is a view of Lotto more skewed to his secular paintings--portraits, allegories and so on--than one might ideally have wished...