Word: secularizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...preacher railed against secular humanism and the Big Bang theory to choruses of "Amen" from the congregation. I squirmed in my seat, mortified by the thought that our group would return to Harvard remembering the church service as evidence that all West Virginians are gullible and naive. I hoped that my classmates would remember the piety, the charity, the resourcefulness, the selflessness and the perseverence that were evident in the community where we stayed...
What keeps the conservative movement's struggle with success from turning into a full-blown crisis is the absence of effective competition. The Democrats as a party and the liberals as a secular sect are far more bereft of direction. It is impossible to imagine a liberal gathering where one champion would warrant two or three different lapel buttons, let alone the eleven bearing the likeness of Ollie North...
...have so many questions. But I believe it is important to address them, to think about them and not to ignore them. Judaism is a beautiful heritage that has brought a lot to the world and to its people. So many men and women, who have contributed greatly in secular fields, have been proud Jews. I get a special sense of Jewish pride when I read Albert Einstein's quote: "The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, and almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence, these are the features of the Jewish tradition that make...
...Republican President in the White House now may not poeticize trees -- he takes a certain pride in not poeticizing anything -- but he does have a fine secular appreciation of what trees do. They hold the earth and scrub the air. Chop them down, and the world becomes a moonscape in a greenhouse. Egypt's eastern desert is a cautionary text: each tree in the sparse landscape is under the protection of a Bedouin family. Sometimes the people build a wall around each tree to guard the leaves from goats...
...think of the telephone purely as a secular voice thrower, it arrives in the mind at its most irritating. For example, no one has yet devised a pleasant way for a telephone to come to life. The ring is a sudden intrusion, a drill in the ear. Pavlov's dog hears and picks the damned thing up. The Satanic bleats from some new phones are the equivalent of sound lasers. Don't hurt me again, says the dog. I'll talk. Perhaps the phone that looks like a duck decoy and quacks instead of ring will breed new species -- phones...