Word: secularized
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...Secular humanism (a respectable term even though it became a right-wing swearword) stubbornly insisted that morality need not be based on the supernatural. But it gradually became clear that ethics without the sanction of some higher authority simply were not compelling...
...only issue is whether Harvard money will be spent for something whose use is restricted on sectarian grounds. I oppose such an expenditure because it violates secular principles, which in my opinion are part of the foundation of a democratic society...
Being the host of the Tonight show is not a job but a secular anointment. He is not just a walking, talking soporific for millions of Americans who watch him from between their feet, but a kind of nightly tour guide to the culture, a familiar stop on the highway of dreams, one of the few still points in the spinning landscape of American life...
...grounded in Muslim theology. By affirming his devotion to Islam, the monarch hopes to enlist the support of clerics and scholars. Without their backing, Fahd risks losing control of the ideological battleground between progressive middle-class Saudis and conservative religious extremists, who have launched a campaign denouncing secular influences. In recent months fundamentalists have increased their harassment of women who dress "immodestly" and have intruded into homes where people are suspected of drinking alcohol. Fahd's decree bans such actions...
Steinem: This society, Western culture in general, has devoted itself to externalizing everything, whether it's obeying the demands of the church to win rewards after death, or the secular heaven of consumerism that makes us feel insecure if we don't buy endless things -- all the vast array of external hierarchies that depend for their authority on weakening our authority -- especially women...