Sentences with phrase «about secularism»

It started out as a conversation about secularism.

But we didn't know it was about secularism, because in school we learn everything there is to know about Martin Luther King, but nothing about Martin Luther.

ranting on about secularism is doing nothing to bring you understanding.

To put Genesis on the level of a physical discussion of the natural order is to secularize it — while complaining loudly about secularism in modern culture!

In our time, a great many such people are worried and angry about the secularism, violence, cynicism, and despair they see welling up about them.

They should pick some lead from western nation about secularism, freedom of speech and liberty and manage their affairs in those terms with believers and nonbelievers equally.

But to teach about religion, as Nord suggests, would not achieve neutrality without teaching about secularism too.

Not exact matches

How many scularist rock concerts haev you had, where the intent was to teach you about living without religion, or to convert you to secularism?

It is thus possible to teach «about» secularism rather than simply teaching secularism, as our universities, public schools, periodical media, and courts have been doing for so long.

I knew he intended it as a challenge to the regnant secularism of the time, but you had to wonder: What else had this distinguished scholar, and his colleagues at the higher altitudes of German theology, been speaking about, these many years?

She wrote about vampires, and at one point she forsook secularism and embraced religion.

The author's presumptions about SBNRs and science, secularism, and relgion, are condescending and unsubstantiated.

Again, this says nothing about the inherent ethical superiority of secularism, but it does dispel the myth that the irreligious are somehow less moral than those with a religion.

But that worry was only one aspect of his thought, for he balanced a fear of excessive religious «enthusiasm» with a correlative worry about dead religion, which would soon lead to its inevitable offspring, secularism.

Through circuitous routes, the idea caught on among conservative Christians worried about the militant secularism promoted by the public schools, and mainly among evangelical Christians who, unlike Catholics, did not have a school system of their own.

The priest, who is the former Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, also spoke about the «frightening decline of Christian culture» and the increase of «rampant secularism» in the United States.

My suspicion has to do with the sense that, in a period of anxiety about the inroads made by secularism and about the loss of, say, a distinctive Reformed or Lutheran tradition, some would embrace «tradition» in an uncritical way.

No, what American Catholics are happy about, or should be, is that the pope is bringing Christianity into the dialogue with secularism in a way that doesn't alienate the people he would like to introduce to Christ via grace and mercy AND that he is doing so while maintaining the firm teachings the Church holds on moral matters.

Secularism is «neutral» about everything except secular philosophy.

It is hardly at all about trying to maintain the Christian faith in an age of secularism.

The problem was not secularization but reductionist interpretation of reality by ideologies of closed secularism that brought about the problem.

Until a far greater percentage of churchgoing Americans and Canadians have become more articulate about the faith, it is absurd to imagine that North American church folk could stand back from their sociological moorings far enough to detach what Christians profess from the mish - mash of modernism, secularism, pietism, and free - enterprise democracy with which Christianity in our context is so fantastically interwoven.

Misunderstandings about secularists and secularism do a disservice to America, says Jacques Berlinerblau.

The spirit of secularism has brought about the crisis of the old and of contemporary religion.

Reflecting on comments about religious issues made recently in the media, he also highlights, in his own incisive style, the effects of creeping secularism inside the Church.

As a position with definite views about human beings, secularism is not a value - neutral space in that project.

Now, fire away with irrelevant comments about the bad things people have done in the name of Christ, the false comparisons to Egyptian myth, and the other silly rebutals of hopeless secularism.

Similarly no one religious faith or religious conception of the Ultimate Reality or even any one doctrine about the relation between religions should be made integral to Open Secularism.

A man who founded an event that's a Christian alternative to Halloween told Premier secularism has hijacked what the season is meant to be about.

In the first part of the book I tried to affirm the worth of the secular world while saying some critical things about «secularism.»

Japanese are studying Eskimo animism and Christianity, Muslims are diagnosing Western secularism, the theorizing of Hindus about comparative religion is becoming widely known.

The article concludes that «what's dangerous about the world today is not belief in God — or secularism or unbelief — but ruthless certainty.

I do think the counter-claims do often demonstrate that is not very much clarity about what the faith or secularism question is about, still less a settled majority view on how to resolve it.

This, I argue, is what is radical about liberalism's secularism: that it is democratic — that it locates its legitimacy in the will of the people, not in extra-political, divinely ordained or philosophically grounded authority.

Secularism is entirely about supporting the rights of religion, just not letting religion infringe on rights itself.

If you have any links to cite about Gulen's secularism, feel free to share, I could incorporate into the answer.

The Pope began his trip with an outspoken political speech warning Britain about the «aggressive secularism» of its society, but in his farewell speech today the prime minister ignored Britain's secular traditions to concentrate on religion.

The briefing also provides information on the wider context of secularism and disestablishment, and sets out what can be done about the present situation.

We welcome Ron Lindsay, author of the new book The Necessity of Secularism, to talk about his views on Charlie Hebdo and the European movement toward a parallel legal system for religious factions.

Graham Lawton presents some fascinating facts and theories about the advance of secularism (3 May, p 30).

I guess it's not surprising that it is in these societies where they had to fight for their secularism that there is the most sensitivity about aggressive insistence on religious rights.

As a liberal, what I care about (and its a subject that I take great interest in as you can probably tell) is navigating the murky waters around between freedom of religion, freedom from religion (i.e. the rights of people not to be governed by others» religions), free expression, secularism, etc..

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