Word: secularizing
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They have lifted their voices in sacred and secular song ever since their wagon trains pulled up to the Great Salt Lake in the summer of 1847. That once small choir soon became one of the world's finest battalion-size forces (325 singers), reason enough for Sony Music to reissue some of the MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR'S top hits. The five-CD set includes hymns, Civil War songs and American standards. The choir's ringing harmonies and bright tones are perfectly suited to chorales (Sheep May Safely Graze, with its heavenly shifting of voices) or patriotic marches (The Caissons...
...Founding Fathers created a zone of freedom around each individual human conscience -- or, for that matter, religious sect. They demystified government and reduced it to something within reach of human comprehension, protest and change. Surely the Republicans, committed as they are to "limited government," ought to honor the secular spirit that has limited our government from the moment of its birth...
...Right alliance that emerged between religious and secular conservatives in the late 1970s helped Reagan attract two-thirds of the white evangelical vote, the same proportion Carter had won in 1980. Some 70% voted for Bush four years ago, giving him a lock on the South, where white Protestants are the dominant voting bloc, and strengthening him in important Northern states like Illinois and Michigan...
...This is not a civil war," insists Prijedor police chief Drljaca. "It's a religious war." The operative lie is that Bosnia's Muslim leader, Alija Izetbegovic, is bent on creating a Muslim fundamentalist state. Never mind that Bosnia's Muslims are not fundamentalist, indeed are among the more secular followers of the Prophet Muhammad. Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, who shares the Serb ambition to carve up Bosnia, parrots the charge that "there are tendencies to create an Islamic state." Serbs claim that an "Islamic Declaration" that Izetbegovic wrote in the 1970s is proof of his intention to establish...
While these obstacles certainly exist, they hardly constitute a systematic program of oppression. The greater difficulty is resisting the belief that religion is irrational or outdated in those bastions of secular rationality, the University and modern society...