Sentences with phrase «of secular humanism»

Appraising the issue at Indianapolis, a specialist from Indiana University's School of Law noted that the case would be helped if the definition of secular humanism as a religion could be made to stick — but it can not.

I was struck by the following extract from your Magazine's recent editorial (Nov - Dec» 07) concerning the failure of secular humanism which «seeks to exclude God from public policy as an irrelevance, an interference in humanity's autonomous self - development without any vision of meaning and value... The truth is that for all its noisy propaganda atheistic humanism has nothing positive to offer humanity.

The Senate, by voice vote, has passed a bill that would end the ban on the teaching of secular humanism in programs funded by federal magnet - school money.

A good dose of secular humanism would do everybody involved the world of good.

A collection of eloquent essays by current and former faculty and students of Harvard, its contributors give personal testimony of a faith retained, deepened, or even nurtured within the stronghold of secular humanism.

Observing the ascendance of secular humanism, Kristol ponders how long any community or society can survive once its members suspect that «the universe is bereft of transcendental meaning.»

«Once before in history a ruling elite imposed dissolution on the Catholic Church, this time widespread social and cultural forces of dissolution are being disseminated by some in the political establishment, the media, and education, seen in their one - sided promotion of secular humanism against religion.»

An atheist of the secular humanism vein and an atheist of the Objectivist vein are about as similar as a bicycle and an octopus.

One can see in Gardner's moral scheme a classic instance of secular humanism.

That all should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood (sic) is another moral norm that is acceptable to persons and peoples is a demand of secular humanism as well as of all the major world religions.

Whatever its origin, religious fundamentalism which rejects change in religion or its social structure ends up by isolating itself from the influence of other religions or the values of secular humanism, and in the long run tends to make religious community centred on its self - righteousness and eventually its self - interest.

For the sake of argument I would stipulate that adherents of secular humanism behave in a way that is indistinguishable from that of the religious.

These features differentiate fundamentalists from other evangelical and conservative thinkers who accent the «five smooth stones» by which the Goliath of secular humanism is to be slain: substitutionary atonement, Christ's imminent return, the reality of eternal punishment, the necessity of personal assurance of salvation and the truth of the miracles.

It can (and does) however come out of Secular Humanism though.

Are there different versions of Secular Humanism?

Church and State, the journal of Americans United, has year after year recorded a succession of triumphs for a totally secular (not «neutral») school; it was in its pages a decade ago that Leo Pfeffer, perhaps the most distinguished of the separationist attorneys, announced «the triumph of secular humanism.»

I find their arguments convincing, I am less convinced by their contention that echoes of secular humanism's world view in certain.

This is the great Achilles» heel of secular humanism, and there are potentially dangerous consequences.

I would argue that Bart has merely swapped one form of faith for another in embracing the ideology of secular humanism.

Both Catholic Pope and Orthodox dissident agree: forgetting God destines us for disastrous results, at the hands of secular humanism.

The Failure of Secular Humanism Secularism seeks to exclude God from public policy as an irrelevance, an interference in humanity's autonomous self - development.

In the early nineteen - seventies Edward Holloway grieved over the devastating impact of secular humanism on the young in his parishes:

It has often found itself on the wrong side of the new issues of social justice which have been brought to light by the conscientious concerns of secular humanism.

(The Jewish state of Israel and the Muslim states have not solved this problem either, nor have the forces of secular humanism proven any more adept at addressing the moral and cultural crisis of modern societies.)

If the great religions continue to waste their energies in a fratricidal war instead of looking upon themselves as friendly partners in the supreme task of nourishing the spiritual life of mankind, the swift advance of secular humanism and moral materialism is assured.32

However, having read the article, its all about loving your neighbour and caring for the poor — these are values found not only in many religions, but is part of secular humanism too.

But one does not know whether the founders remembered the historical fact that it was the movement of Secular Humanism associated with the European Enlightenment that brought the humanist values of liberty, equality and fraternity to the forefront in the French Revolution and helped Christianity to discover them and their roots within the Christian tradition and the gospel of Christ.

As the title of a book it is a little cumbersome, a little intimidating, except that it's absolutely essential to the discussion of Secular Humanism as America's Established religion and how we can disestablish it.

In spite of the teaching of secular humanism, Modernism, and liberal theology, Biblical Christianity (The Old Time Religion and the Faith of our Fathers) is based on racial principles.»

Shaw argues that the present struggles of the Church to be who she is amid governmental mandates and the ascendant «state religion» of secular humanism are the legacy of Baltimore's Cardinal James Gibbons and other early churchmen who found America to be so accommodating to religion as to warrant a reciprocal accommodation to nationalism.

Elizabeth Scalia on the idea of American Catholicism: Russell Shaw argues that the present struggles of the Church to be who she is amid governmental mandates and the ascendant «state religion» of secular humanism are the legacy of Baltimore's Cardinal James Gibbons and other early....