Sentences with phrase «rational secular people»

We rational secular people should be scared, very scared of these fear mongerers.

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I believe we are our brothers and sisters keepers and one could make the argument that it falls under the category of rational self interest; however, the minute people think they can enforce that philosophy at the end of a barrel of a gun (gov «t) the whole thing falls apart and religion becomes secular humanism where the state replaces God.

Modernity's emphasis on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs on the basis of rational discussion.

The crucial question is whether a plurality of religious and secular faiths, each of which had developed its own traditional culture, that is, philosophy, morality, ideology and legal system of corporate life, can, through inter-faith rational discourse, create at least the basic framework of a common culture or common direction and scheme of values for peoples to build together a new dwelling, like the national community.

Our mission is for people who wish to work together to build a rational, ethical and secular society free from superstition and supernaturalism.