The religious New Right has taken a very vocal interest in education, charging that the public schools in particular are permeated
with secular humanism.
A big problem
with secular humanism is that it attempts to develop a morality based on human reason, only using our understanding of the material world.
Not exact matches
Please name one war specifically linked
with atheism or
secular humanism.
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.»
Just because most wars are started for non-religious purposes doesn't automatically associate them
with atheism or
secular humanism.
You expose your outdated beliefs and understandings in such a seemingly trivial mistake: no one uses a phone book anymore, but, a quick Google search will provide contact information for literally dozens of support groups, organizations and communities ready to embrace and assist those seeking to practice
Secular Humanism with others of like mind.
The absence of this metaphor corresponds
with the broader movement of ecumenical social thought which, after a mid-century period of neo-orthodoxy, has headed, Paul Bock writes, «back in the direction of
humanism» and taken a more hopeful view of the
secular prospect.
It provided an ideological framework within which the many religious communities of India as well as the plurality of linguistic caste and ethnic cultures (in the formation of which one or other religions had played a dominant role) could participate together
with the adherents of
secular ideologies like Liberalism and Socialism (which emerged in India in the framework of the impact of modern
humanism of the West mediated through western power and English education).
LaHaye has written more than 60 non-fiction books on a wide range of subjects such as: family life, temperaments, sexual adjustment, Bible prophecy, the will of God, Jesus Christ, and
secular humanism with over 14 million in print, some of which have been translated into 32 foreign languages.
With extensive expert testimony, the plaintiffs made the case that secular humanism functions in many respects for its adherents as a religion (with ministers, fellowship, ceremonies marking the milestones of life, and a missionary program), and that it has many of the substantive characteristics of a religion as well, including a coherent interpretation of all of real
With extensive expert testimony, the plaintiffs made the case that
secular humanism functions in many respects for its adherents as a religion (
with ministers, fellowship, ceremonies marking the milestones of life, and a missionary program), and that it has many of the substantive characteristics of a religion as well, including a coherent interpretation of all of real
with ministers, fellowship, ceremonies marking the milestones of life, and a missionary program), and that it has many of the substantive characteristics of a religion as well, including a coherent interpretation of all of reality.
It may be an open secularism
with insights form
secular humanism and from religions.
«Acknowledging the common humanity given in Christ, can we not work
with men of all religions and no religions for a
secular human culture and community, and even for a
secular humanism open to insights from all religions and ideologies, evaluated in the light of, Lad informed by, the true manhood of Jesus Chris?»
And finally, if religious activism breaks its ties
with sacramental, mystical, and silent religion, it becomes indistinguishable from
secular humanism, such as Marxism for example.
It now has its own religious philosophy —
secular humanism — which it advocates and evangelises
with all the fervency of any religious fundamentalist.
What a choice of churches we have, Conservative Pharisaic sectarians or Liberal enablers
with their «soft»
secular humanism cloaked in God - words.
Democratic
secular humanism has creatively flowered in modern times
with the growth of freedom and democracy....
What does family and nature have to do
with Judaism or distinguish it from, say,
secular humanism?
But the fact that technological and social revolutions which did have the potential and promise of producing a world community
with richer and filler human life for all humanity, resulted in the intensification of mass poverty, social oppression, war and ecological destruction, have led many to consider self - sufficient
Secular Humanism as inadequate to understand or deal
with the tragic dimensions of the human selfhood and social existence.
So one has to find a new pattern of ideologically pluralistic
secular humanism and religiously pluralistic spiritual
humanism entering into dialogue
with each other on anthropology, the nature and meaning of being and becoming human.
The real struggle in all religious communities is for spiritual reformation opening themselves to enter into dialogue
with other religions and
with secular humanist ideologies regarding the nature and rights of the human person and the meaning of social justice enabling to build together a new spiritually - oriented
humanism and a more humane society.
Actually, it was the leaders of the 19th century Indian Renaissance and the political thinkers in the ideological leadership of the 20th centary Indian Nationalism who grappled
with the person and teachings of Jesus Christ and assimilated the essence of Christian
humanism into the religious and
secular thought of modern India.
If you find yourself in conflict
with someone like that, just imagine what the opposition is all about:
secular laws vs religious laws, and racism vs
humanism, to name but two of the many battlefields to be found here.
Some of these theologians, and others as well, believe that Christian theology is most relevantly compared
with doctrines about the meaning of life that are usually called
secular, such as communism, fascism, romantic naturalism, and rationalistic
humanism.
European culture developed
with a complex range of philosophy, medieval scholasticism and mysticism, and Christian and
secular humanism.