Word: secularized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Secular Americans found Falwell to be horrifying, a dangerous mix of sacred and conservative. But so, at least at first, did many fundamentalists, who believed that politics had no place in houses of prayer. "What you have to remember is that American fundamentalists were separate from the rest of country politically and theologically," said Michael Cromartie of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. "Falwell came along and said, 'Politics is important now. You can't stay apart.' That was no small thing. Whether one agrees with Falwell or not, to mobilize millions of people who had heretofore been apolitical...
...culture of the medical school is secular, with relatively little discussion of faith in social medicine and patient-doctor courses. From my experience, acknowledging a patient’s or a caregiver’s faith in actual hospital care almost never happens...
...medical students, doctors, and nurses. For many of us, the medical duty to serve others and the faith-based call to treat others as we would treat ourselves are mutually reinforcing missions. That doesn’t mean, of course, that we agree with right-wing calls to avoid secular institutions and erase the boundary between church and state...
Schools rightly want to preserve their secular orientation. But too often, that attempt becomes an avoidance of even discussing religion, which is absolutely central to death and disease for so many of us, caregivers and patients alike. I’ll never forget when one of my attendings told me that when sick patients ask her to pray with her, she just holds their hands, “because that’s what they really mean anyhow.” A more honest answer would be for the doctor to admit that she doesn’t believe...
Many of us are absolutely committed both to our faith and to our work and education at secular institutions. And our patients, in huge numbers, turn to their God in moments of crisis. The medical school needs to acknowledge all this more openly and more consistently...