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 | | This is the secret of the animal called 'secularism' in India, too: it is dhimmitude, only it is with respect not only to Islam, but it has been extended to its Semitic cousins Christianity and Marxism as well. | | | The smrtis, sutras and sutradharas of 'secularism' need to be exposed for the frauds they are. | | | This is the state of mind in which non-Muslims, although not under Muslim rule, accept at face value Islam's claims about its superiority and its right to traumatise non-Muslims. |
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http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/jul/05rajeev.htm
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| | How to Think About Secularism |
| | A public climate of secularism undermines the confidence of Christians in the truth of what they believe. | | | How to distinguish between critical inquiry and criticism that has been poisoned by the presuppositions of secularism is a subject for another essay. | | | The destruction of that idea is key to legitimating a secularist culture, since the idea of truth touches on secularism's greatest vulnerability. |
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http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9606/articles/pannenberg.html
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| | Weekly Worker 554 - Thursday November 25 2004 |
| | Remember, Chris, the position of the SWP is for the complete abolition of the Jewish state of Israel and its replacement by an Arab-Jewish “democratic, secular Palestine”. | | | We communists fight for the democratic rights of all and, in particular, the rights of the oppressed, including those who are oppressed because of their religion. | | | The idea that socialists should refrain from proposing such a secularism within Respect or the anti-war movement is a baffling one. |
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http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/554/secularism1.htm
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| | The Debauching of Secularism in India |
| | But the politicized secularism did not provide for any room for consideration of Hindu sentiments which largely remained inarticulate, disorganized and lacked the political value for the secular political leadership to take cognizance of. | | | There is a crisis of secular credibility that has gripped the nation. | | | On the contrary, Islamic terrorism is sought to be projected as a movement for self-determination and death of terrorists is championed as violation of human rights. |
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http://www.liberalsindia.com/freedomfirst/ff453-06.html
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| | Secularism and Jewish Survival |
| | Secularism is a serious conviction for some Jews, as well as an existential condition for a great many more. | | | Secularism in Jewish life must be appreciated and supported as a potent source of motivation and identification. | | | Kaveh argued that the key for Jewish survival lies with secular Jews. |
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http://www.dangoor.com/75041.html
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| | Ayodhya And After - Chapter 10 - Secularism As It Is |
| | Secularism does not mean that the state promotes one belief system, it means that the state limits itself to guaranteeing the individual's freedom to find out about these matters for himself. | | | So, secularism rather means freedom regarding religion : the freedom to take it or to leave it (freedom without a choice between alternatives is hardly freedom). | | | The secular state is not making any call to eschew any ways of life whatsoever. |
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http://www.voi.org/books/ayodhya/ch10.htm
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| | DESACRALIZING SECULARISM |
| | Secularism self-consciously repudiates the Christian solution to the human condition according to which the true end of man lies beyond the world of politics and history <29>. | | | Secularity, it would appear, is from the very start a Christian ambition and a Protestant necessity! | | | Religion, declared Machiavelli, has to be banished from politics not because it teaches morality but because it teaches a wrong kind of morality, the kind that does not enhance the power of the state. |
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http://www.algonet.se/~pmanzoor/Des-Sec.htm
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| | The Hindu : Pseudo-secularism — I |
| | Their alternative is to argue that Indian tradition was inherently tolerant, that it is rather the modernising state, homogenising and interventionist, requiring a monolithic "national culture" to back it up, which has been the root cause of the rise of the various forms of violence and growing alienation of religious groups seen in India today. | | | Dipankar Gupta, in turn, writing in the Economic and Political Weekly (November 16), calls for an "intolerant secularism," meaning that the state must be ready to forthrightly enforce the rights of citizens against violence and terror, regardless of the religious rhetoric used to justify this. | | | However, we should also be ready to admit that something may be wrong with Nehruvian-Gandhian secularism or at least with the way secularism has been projected as an ideal. |
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http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2003/01/20/stories/2003012000481000.htm
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| | SECULARISM |
| | Rawls' writings include passages suggesting that his entire theory of "political liberalism" had in mind no target or opponent save religious believers voting in accordance with their religious beliefs, i.e. | | | Those who, on the basis of respect for individual conscience, would view the moral duty of Christians to act according to their conscience as something that disqualifies them from political life, denying the legitimacy of their political involvement following from their convictions about the common good, would be guilty of a form of intolerant secularism. | | | Such a position would seek to deny not only any engagement of Christianity in public or political life, but even the possibility of natural ethics itself. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/SECULAR.HTM
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| | A Clash of Orthodoxies |
| | As MacIntyre has argued, secularism (which he calls liberalism) is far from being a "tradition—independent" view that merely represents a neutral playing field on which Judaism, Christianity, Marxism, and other traditions can wage a fair fight for the allegiance of the people. | | | In denying the possibility of rationally motivated action, secularism denies the possibility of free choice since it claims that we don’t, in any fundamental sense, cause our own actions. | | | The first, however, denies that reason can identify moral truths, content with the claim that secularism is no more rational than, say, Christian belief. |
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http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9908/articles/george.html
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| | archive principles of secularism |
| | Attention should be guaranteed to distant correspondents and visitors, so that means of communication and publication of all advanced opinions in society, theology, and politics might exist, and be able to command publicity, when expressed dispassionately, impersonally, and with ordinary good taste. | | | Would he conceive of Secularism as a cause to be served loyally, which we would support as well as he was able, if unable to support it as well as he could wish? | | | Yet some opponents have professed that Secular cannot be distinguished from Christian rights. |
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http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~stolley/scholarship/atheism/secularism/secularism_plaintext.htm
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| | What is Secularism? |
| | Secularism is the creature of Western man. He is responsible for what we have euphemistically called “the changing environment.” As Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote from his Nazi prison more than three decades ago, “Western civilization is about to deny its historical heritage as such. | | | Secularism was born of a false theology, or more precisely, of a decaying post-Orthodox Wesetern theology. | | | A devout Lutheran, Hegel saw that the Revolution called for a new defense of Christianity. |
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http://www.stvladimirs.ca/library/what-is-secularism.html
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| | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . FEATURE . Secular Jews . November 1, 2002 PBS |
| | Rabbi SHAFRAN: A secular Jew is basically a dead end in terms of the continuity of the Jewish people. | | | The Orthodox, particularly, worry that secular Jews will fail to pass Judaism on to the next generation. | | | We need to act in a firm and decisive way to reconnect as many Jews as possible with what has made the Jewish people a people to begin with 3,000 years ago, and what will preserve us as a people into the future. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week609/feature.html
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| | Secularism - A tool of dividing politics |
| | That formula was that the Christian State would prevail in worldly issues that were considered to be 'secular' in Christian theology. | | | In Indian politics, uniting a minority for votes is 'secular'. | | | 'Secular' India denies to the majority the rights it reserves for the minority. |
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http://news.indiainfo.com/2005/02/08/0802guru.html
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| | secularism and turkey MetaFilter |
| | Ask a Kurd, Armenian, Greek, Siriani,Jew, Christian, Arab or so forth if Turkey is a model "secular" state. | | | This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments | | | He seems to like Turkey well enough except for the bits about getting put in jail if he speaks Kurdish in public. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/45333
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| | France - Secularism - Islam - Worldpress.org |
| | “I don’t believe that secularism can be threatened by a few veils, and if it could be, that would mean it’s already been damnably weakened,” says Biot. | | | Should we then make Secularism the fourth pillar of the Republic, after Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity? | | | Adds Patrick Gaubert, president of the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA), “Secularism can no longer remain a simple neutrality; it must become an absolute demand.” |
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| | Secularism (Islaam.Com) |
| | The silence of the masses in the Muslim world about this deviation has been a major transgression and a clear-cut instance of disobedience which have produces a sense of guilt, remorse, and inward resentment, all of which have generated discontent, insecurity, and hatred among committed Muslims because such deviation lacks legality. | | | As such, a Christian could accept secularism without any qualms of conscience. | | | For this reason, the call for secularism among Muslims is atheism and a rejection of Islam. |
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http://www.islaam.com/Article.aspx?id=117
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| | Promotion of Secularism |
| | Making a fervent appeal for castelessness and religionlessness she said when we march towards castelessness and secularism, government and people would devote their time and energies to the real problems. | | | Atheist Centre, under the inspiring leadership of Gora, took up practical programmes for the abolition of untouchability and for the promotion of castelessness. | | | Vidya reiterated that secularism in India was not merely a political doctrine. |
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| | Bush's Secularist Triumph - The left apologizes for religious fanatics. The president fights them. By Christopher ... |
| | Only one faction in American politics has found itself able to make excuses for the kind of religious fanaticism that immediately menaces us in the here and now. | | | But there would have been a benefit many times greater had it been done for the right reason — and if that reason had been elevated into a doctrine. | | | If this is liberal secularism, I'll take a modest, God-fearing, deer-hunting Baptist from Kentucky every time, as long as he didn't want to impose his principles on me (which our Constitution forbids him to do). |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2109377
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| | The Hindu : Redefining secularism |
| | Unfortunately, those political parties who have been swearing by it all these years have failed to persuade the masses that secularism is good for country. | | | This unfortunately because of the historical context has struck a responsive chord in the hearts of the Hindu masses. | | | Later Marx, calling religion the `opium of the masses,' defined secularism to completely eschew religion, in fact to debunk the very idea of any religious adherence. |
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http://www.hindu.com/2004/03/18/stories/2004031801941000.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Secularism |
| | The complete secularization of all public institutions in a Christian nation is therefore inadmissible. | | | A fortiori all motives derived from the Christian religion are worthless. | | | Although the name Secularism is of recent origin, its various doctrines have been taught by free-thinkers of all ages, and, in fact, Secularism claims to be only an extension of free-thought. |
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| | SECULARISM IN CHURCH, THEOLOGY AND PASTORAL CARE |
| | Secularism was a consequence of people attracted to Christianity out of expediency. | | | His views were of the scholastic theology which in reality constitutes a secular theology. | | | During the persecutions, Christians believed and lived in truth. |
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| | Pakistan Times Op-Ed: Future of Secularism in India (by Engr. Asghar Ali) |
| | Our leaders and freedom fighters were well aware of need for secular and modern democratic polity for India. | | | The BJP Government tends to be buffeted between the VHP extremism and National Democratic Alliance compulsions. | | | He said in his answer to a query by an Indian student at Oxford University in the fifties that in UK State has a religion (Anglican Christianity) but people of England are quite indifferent to religion but in India State has no religion but people are very religious. |
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| | Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society |
| | ISIS promotes freedom of expression, freedom of thought and belief, freedom of intellectual and scientific inquiry, freedom of conscience and religion – including the freedom to change one’s religion or belief - and freedom from religion: the freedom not to believe in any deity. | | | We share the ideals of a democratic society, and a secular state that does not endorse any religion, religious institution, or any religious dogma. | | | We believe in the primacy of the rule of law: a common civil code under which all men and women have equal protection of their rights and freedoms. |
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http://www.secularislam.org
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| | Secularism, Secular Humanism |
| | Kenneth Hamilton (Life in One's Stride, 1968) denies that this is the best way to interpret Bonhoeffer and argues that the German theologian never wavered in his basic, orthodox stance. | | | Jacques Ellul (The New Demons, 1975) was among several voices arguing that secularism was itself a form of religion and was antagonistic both to Christianity and to a true Christian humanism. | | | In this sense, then, secularization of society is a Christian calling. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txn/seculari.htm
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| | SECULARISM - LoveToKnow Article on SECULARISM |
| | Holyoake founded a society inLondon which subsequently under the leadership of Charles Bradlaugh advocated the disestablishment of the Church, the abolition of the Second Chamber and other political and economic reforms. | | | As the word implies, secularism is based solely on considerations of practical morality with a view to the physical, social and moral improvement of society. | | | To properly cite this SECULARISM article in your work, copy the complete reference below: |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SE/SECULARISM.htm
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| | Catholic Culture : Document Library : On Secularism |
| | But wherever, despite their lapses, they have held steadfastly to their Christian ideals, the way to effective reform and progress has been kept open. | | | Secularism, in its impact on the individual, blinds him to his responsibility to God. | | | There would be more hope for a just and lasting peace if the leaders of the nations were really convinced that secularism which disregards God, as well as militant atheism which utterly denies Him, offer no sound basis for stable international agreements for enduring respect for human rights or for freedom under law. |
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http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=767
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| | The California Mission: The Challenge of Secularism: |
| | Only as we identify and repent of patterns of secularism in our own thinking can we enter into the fullness of our Christian liberty as children of the Father. | | | This is the truth about the nature of man that has been lost in the welter of psychological theories. | | | As we consider all these varied manifestations of secularism, it is obvious that this social movement is as profound a threat to Christianity as any of the ancient heresies were. |
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http://www.msjc.org/CaliforniaMission/Secularism.htm
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| | Is France Getting Religion? - In the immigrant suburbs of Paris, secularism is on the wane. By Elisabeth Eaves |
| | Unlike most of the 64.3 percent of French citizens who still identify with Catholicism, the new Protestants are vigorous worshippers. | | | The 1905 law bars any state funding of religious groups and is the cornerstone of French secularism. | | | Sébastien Fath, a sociologist who has written extensively on Protestantism in France, noted in a recent paper that while accelerated secularization has marked French society since the 1960s, evangelicals (who here are mostly Pentecostal) seem to have escaped the trend. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2112962
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| | Secularism Zindabad!!!! |
| | 'We, The People of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic and to secure to all its citizens: | | | Secularism means 'the view that religious considerations should be excluded from civil affairs or public education.' It also means 'a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations.' | | | In light of such policies being practiced by the government, what should the mainstream media's role and responsibility be? |
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| | New Pope Draws Line in Spain |
| | In a sign that new Pope Benedict XVI is playing hardball with growing secularism in Europe, the Vatican has come out strong against a same-sex marriage bill in Spain. | | | When he was a cardinal, his Vatican office told Catholic officials in 2003 that they shouldn't support laws that contradict moral teachings on issues like abortion, and later stated that it is "gravely immoral" not to oppose legal recognition of same-sex marriage. | | | Observers say the Vatican's action signals a toughening stance against creeping secularism, which Pope Benedict has called one of the greatest evils facing Europe. |
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http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/4/29/112039.shtml
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| | Technorati Tag: secularism |
| | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged secularism. | | | Since I have long thought that the similarities between 'religion' and 'atheism' make some visions of a secular society a permit for the non-religious... | | | Research Secularism at Questia Find quality info at the world's online library. |
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| | Agnosticism, Atheism, Humanism, & Secularism |
| | Secular Humanism and Christian Humanism: Seeking After Common Ground (Dave Armstrong and Sue Strandberg) 55K | | | Romanticism, Wagner, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, and Me (essentially my conversion story from secularized nature mystic and occult devotee to Christianity, with reflections on the relationship of Romanticism to Christianity) | | | Dialogue on the Argument From Non-Belief (ANB) as a Proposed Disproof of God's Existence (Dave Armstrong vs. Steve Conifer and Dr. Ted Drange) 174K |
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| | Secularism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This article concerns secularism, the social ideology in which religion and supernatural beliefs are not seen as the key to understanding the world and are instead segregated from matters of governance and reasoning. | | | When secularism is claimed in theory but not in practice | | | Groups such as the National Secular Society and Americans United campaign for secularism and are often supported by those who practice Secular humanism. |
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| | National Secular Society - National Secular Society - Home |
| | National Secular Society - National Secular Society - Home | | | The Archbishop of Canterbury’s defence of faith schools as promoting community harmony is described by the National Secular Society as disingenuous and self-serving. | | | The Equality Act has just completed its passage through Parliament in the biggest shake up for decades both in equality legislation and the way it is administered. |
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| | secular opinion or belief, esp. a system following a political or social philosophy that rejects religious faith. |
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| | Light & Life Vol 51 No 1 - The Fruits of Secularism |
| | We can also speak of practical secularism as the way of life of those who, while not denying the existence of God or His influence on the world, in practice live their lives without recognizing that this is God’s world. | | | We can speak of the secularism of those who deny the existence of God, as do the adherents of secular humanism, who look upon religion and any divine influence on the world and man as pure superstition; and there are not a few of these in positions of influence in our national life. | | | Secularism blinds the individual as to his responsibility to God. |
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| | Rationalism - The Intellectual Bedrock of Secularism |
| | Assuming that the state which professes secularism to be its policy, also professes the concurrent policy of rationalism, the attitude of the state would have to be of looking at religion as a transitory phenomenon. | | | But while doing this the secular state need not follow the repressive policies of persecution which have so far been followed by theocratic states towards religions other than the one patronised by them. | | | And Secularism is the political expression of this rationalist attitude. |
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| | secular spirit or tendency, esp. a system of political or social philosophy that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship. |
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| | Secularism and the Authority of Jesus |
| | The biggest one we fall into is also the oldest - the very human tendency to view life strictly from the framework of this world. | | | Our life is a constannt struggle to allow Jesus to take more authority, to extend his rule further in our hearts. | | | Perhaps especially old folks because we have spent so many years seeing life as a struggle for position, security, health, finances - all the things important to this world. |
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| | Religious identification in the U.S. |
| | About people who walk away from organized religion: | | | Native Americans consist of 20% Baptist, 17% Roman Catholic, 17% of no organized religion, 3% tribal religion. | | | They've never been to church and, in many cases, their parents didn't go either. |
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| | Alternative Secularism |
| | Interested people need to be able to get information about the issues, and the range of issues, on which the churches and religions seek to maintain their dominance, and see their national organisation making the running, not trailing behind | | | Some are so confined within the security of their little cliques, that they seem afraid, not only of the wider public, but of their own members and supporters. | | | Atheism has always been suppressed, now much of the current membership seems unable to open up to the new possibilities for them to explain the need for secular humanism to the wider public. |
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| | Why Bush threatens secularism - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America?s Newspaper |
| | Why Bush threatens secularism - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America?s Newspaper | | | The weekend before President Bush's second inauguration, 60 humanists, atheists and ethical culturalists gathered at a hotel just off Dupont Circle for an "emergency meeting" organized by the American Humanist Association. |
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| | Centre for Study of Society and Secularism |
| | The Centre for Study of Society and Secularism has been organizing this workshop in different states of India and has held workshop in M.P., Gujarat, Rajasthan, U.P. and Maharashtra. | | | Lecture on "Secular India is possible" lectured by Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer in Kolhapur Maharashtra on 18th December 2005 in public auditorium, about 1000 citizen of Kolhapur attended the lecture. | | | The participants came from various categories like peace activist teachers, women activist and youth. |
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| | secularism from FOLDOC |
| | Sometimes the sense of the word is less strong, connoting something close to humanism, i.e., that affairs of this world should be the most important concerns for ethics and human life (it is in this sense that Aristotelianism and other classical philosophies can be described as secularist). | | | Thus, while atheism is a form of secularism, not every secularist is an atheist. | | | In popular usage, secularism often has the same connotations of immoralism that are imputed more strongly to atheism. |
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| | Institute of Islamic Studies and Centre for Study of Society and Secularism |
| | He has authored or edited 44 books on such issues as Islam and communal and ethnic problems in India and South Asia in general. | | | Asghar Ali Engineer is a rights activist and heads the two organisations, Institute of Islamic Studies and Centre for Study of Society and Secularism. | | | May 2003: The Centre for Study of Society and Secularism has launched a new website at www.csss-isla.com |
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| | Secularism |
| | The composite creature, on display at the National Geographic Society in Washington until late January, consists of the birdlike upper torso and the tail and feet of a small raptor. | | | The magazine displayed it as a "true missing link in the complex chain that connects dinosaurs and birds." This sort of "mistake" results from secular science's determination to make Evolution work, even when it doesn't. |
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