Word: secularized
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Author Paul Johnson in his book Modern Times [June 6] may be correct in blaming the decline of moral standards for the atrocities of the 20th century, but those committed in the name of religion and morality should also be remembered-for example, the Crusades. It is not secularization or moral relativism that has created the horrors of our age, but rather mankind's consistent willingness to sacrifice a fellow being for the sake of some ideal, be it secular or religious...
Ultra-Orthodox Jews attack secular Israelis-and each other...
...Orthodox Jews have a birth rate that is three times the national average, and they also constitute the largest group moving into Jerusalem. As a result, they have been trying to take over areas near the overcrowded Mea Shearim and Geula sections, offering twice the market value to entice secular Israelis to sell their homes and threatening those who refuse to move. At least one family has been burned...
...Jewish students from undergraduate and graduate organizations asked the University for the change because they believe it is unfair to force Jewish participants to choose between important religious and secular commitments, said Jonathan O. Strauss, a Law student who organized the protest...
...precisely because of its revolutionary policies (favoring agrarian reform, secular education collective bargaining and recovery of natural resources)--all of them opposed by the successive government in Washington, from Taft to Hoover--Mexico became a modern, contradictory self-knowing and self-questioning nation... A great statesman is a pragmatic idealist Franklin D. Roosevelt had the political imagination and the diplomatic will to respect Mexico when President Lazaro Cardenas, (in the culminating act of the Mexican Revolution,) expropriated the nation's oil resources...