How is he different
from the secular humanist?
Not exact matches
Keith Barltrop's review of Alain de Botton's new book brings out the bankruptcy of an alternative,
humanist approach, in which Christian ideas, cut free
from their Christian roots, are appropriated by non-believers in their pursuit of an ideal
secular society.
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Nevertheless, religious faith often plays a prominent part in the discussion, differentiating liberal civil religion
from purely
secular or
humanist beliefs.
As I have already agreed with you,
secular humanists (who act like the religious) and militant atheists who profess a categorical belief in the non-existence of God are indistinguishable
from the religious.
How different are their passions
from the annoying, petty complaints of today's
secular humanists (who often assume that belief emanates
from the lowest common denominator of comfort seekers).
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.
We would argue that, like most
secular humanists, he is cherry - picking whatever he finds personally comfortable
from the heritage of Judaeo - Christianity while leaving aside whatever doesn't suit the tastes and fashions of the times.
Lately
from material I have been reading online it seems I am aligned with
secular humanists as well.
And if the Indian Constitution begins with affirming the
humanist principles of liberty, equality, fraternity and justice it has behind it the impact of liberal and socialist
secular ideologies as well as Renascent Hinduism
from Raja Rammohan Roy to Gandhi who absorbed these values and made them part of the Renascent Hinduism itself.
A coalition of atheists and
secular humanists has placed a billboard on Billy Graham Parkway in Charlotte that displays an American flag with a few key words
from the Pledge of Allegiance: «One Nation Indivisible.»
I'm completely convinced
from the writing in his autobiography and his early campaigning that Obama is in fact a
secular humanist who is smart enough to recognize that no one is going to get elected in this country of idiots unless he professes to be a Christian.
In response to this intransigence, later in 2010 we formed the broad - based Equal Love coalition, with support
from cross-party MPs, MEPs, trade unions, the National Union of Students and
secular,
humanist and LGBT religious organisations.
[37] The campaign has support
from both religious and non-religious organizations at both the national and local level including the Accord Coalition, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the British
Humanist Association, British Muslims for
Secular Democracy, ICoCo Foundation, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.
The alarming conclusions of the International
Humanist and Ethical Union's (IHEU) report finds the influence of religion in schools has increased in recent years and removed
secular options
from some courses, leaving it concluding Britain is in «flux».
Humanists and other secularists — including religious people who believe in a
secular state — have long campaigned for an end to «religious privilege» and «religious discrimination»; at the same time, many Muslims have claimed that there is a prevalent «Islamophobia» in society; recently, representatives of some Christian churches are claiming that Christians are being «marginalised» as a consequence of «aggressive secularism» excluding them
from public life.
Answers in Genesis has had a hard time finding a site, having lost an earlier zoning battle because of opposition
from scientists and
secular humanists.
The most activist privatizers are those who seek to recapture the schools
from the clutches of the «
secular humanists» who have supposedly been corrupting young people since...
The fact that Canada's leftist
secular humanist feminists still think that their risk comes
from a decaying and docile Christianity instead of a confident and growing radical Islam is liberalism's Maginot Line, built to defend against a make - believe threat
from a generation ago, not the real threat of today.