Sentences with phrase «against secular humanism»

The New Right's campaign against secular humanism in the schools often seems like an attempt to demonstrate that no one ever lost political power by underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

Many evangelicals — especially those involved in television ministries, conducting family life seminars, and promoting or operating Christian schools — emotively inveigh against secular humanism, denounce the godless Supreme Court, attempt to censor textbooks, and trot out the shopworn Humanist Manifestos I and II as proof of an overarching conspiracy to expunge Christianity from the land.

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The term «humanist» was a bad word at that time among evangelicals, and the antagonism would soon intensify with the appearance, in 1980, of Tim LaHaye's bestseller, The Battle for the Mind, which called for an all - out evangelical campaign against «secular humanism.»

A fight against the teaching of «secular humanism» in public schools, waged since last spring by the chairman of the House education committee in the Colorado legislature, could soon be continued in court.