Word: secularized
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...turned to their Islamic religious leaders?the mullahs?who, as it happens, have deep grievances of their own. For centuries, the daily lives of the Persians were guided by conservative mullahs of the Shi'ite sect, whose influence embraced not only the country's spiritual life but also its secular culture and economic institutions...
...need only cite the brutalities committed in the name of God, from the Inquisition to the "Kill a Commie for Christ" mentality, to demonstrate that intolerance, bigotry and cruelties of all kinds have been and continue to be more common to "religiously oriented" societies than to the few genuinely secular ones...
...differences stem from the foundation stone of the faith, those unique Mormon scriptures, which are the subject of deep but carefully concealed doubts among some church intellectuals at Brigham Young University and at Mormon "institutes" on secular campuses. Smith said he dug up golden tablets at Hill Cumorah near Palmyra in 1827 and dictated their contents to a scribe before they were taken up into heaven. The result was the Book of Mormon, an account of two migrations of ancient Jews to the Americas, and of a ministry by Jesus in the New World. These Jews built elaborate civilizations before...
...Good Book, it turns out, is not so much good or bad as it is simply there. Describing the Bible as an intrinsic part of secular as well as religious culture, Authors Gusztaá Gecse and Henrik Horváth announce that their goal is to explain it as "a human and literary creation." In a favorable editorial, the Communist Party daily Népszabadság listed three reasons for Communists to gain familiarity with Christianity's handbook. One was to understand such Bible-based expressions as "Solomonic verdict" and "scapegoat," another to "enrich the dialogue with believers...
...from the casting couch to the Pink House, the traditional seat of Argentina's First Family. When she died in 1952 of cancer at the age of 33, the bereaved descamisados sought to have her canonized. The Vatican diplomatically declined, suggesting that her good works were basically secular...