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	American Secular Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The American Secular Union was a social movement from the 1800s in the United States.
		After the implosion of the Socialistic Labor Party, the Liberals reorganized as a nonpolitical American Secular Union.
		The American Secular Union and Freethought Federation was dedicated to the separation of Church and State, and for its platform used the nine demands of Liberalism, namely:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Secular_Union (340 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Secularism
		Secularism does not say there is no light or guidance elsewhere, but maintains that there is light and guidance in secular truth, whose conditions and sanctions exist independently, and act forever.
		Secular knowledge is manifestly that kind of knowledge which is founded in this life, which relates to the conduct of this life, conduces to the welfare of this life, and is capable of being tested by the experience of this life" (Charles Bradlaugh, I, 334, 336).
		The Church is as intent as Secularism on the improvement of this life, as respectful of scientific achievements, as eager for the fulfilment of all duties pertaining to the present life.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13676a.htm (1959 words)

	Political Dictionary S (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Usually this is when a labor union, in a labor dispute, attempts to put pressure on an employer who is not direcly involved in the dispute, in the hope that this will eventually produce pressure on the employer directly involved.
		secular - not connected with religion or the sacred, as, for example, a secular education would be one that is not based on religious teachings or principles.
		secularization - the process of becoming secular; the separation of civil or educational institutions from ecclesiastical control.
	www.fast-times.com /dictionarys.html (4449 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In current American usage, the phrase "that's history" is commonly used to dismiss something as unimportant, of no relevance to current concerns, and, despite an immense investment in the teaching and writing of history, the general level of historical knowledge in our society is abysmally low.
		In their country's defense, some American commentators pointed out that, unlike the Western European imperialists, America had itself been a victim of colonialism; the United States was the first country to win freedom from British rule.
		The American Revolution was fought not by Native American nationalists but by British settlers, and, far from being a victory against colonialism, it represented colonialism's ultimate triumph—the English in North America succeeded in colonizing the land so thoroughly that they no longer needed the support of the mother country.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content/011119fa_FACT2 (8153 words)

	A Paradox on the American Landscape
		Secular spiritualities are not incompatible with the beliefs and practices of religious traditions.
		Secular spiritualities are seldom expressed in theological or metaphysical language.
		Since secular spiritualities are not under the constraints of theological orthodoxy or the requirement of philosophical consistency, they are often eclectic.
	www.parkridgecenter.org /Page95.html (858 words)

	Freethought Today, December 2004
		This attack on secular government is especially ironic, because it comes at a time when people around the world are witnessing extraordinary and terrifying new demonstrations of the power of religion to do harm when it is united with political and state power.
		To paint the right wing as the sole actor in the demonization of American secularism evades the role of larger forces in American society and absolves secularists themselves of their responsibility to educate the public about the neglected and noble secular heritage of this republic.
		Americans' qualms when presented with specific questions about faith-based funding--as distinct from a general question that never discusses exactly which religion will get money and for what purpose--suggest that many would respond positively to an honest discussion of church-state issues.
	www.ffrf.org /fttoday/2004/dec/jacoby.php (3468 words)

	OpinionJournal - Extra
		The union's "prophetic mission and God's call to us to be a 'light to the nations' " has, in its own telling, compelled it to demand "a clear exit strategy with specific goals for troop withdrawal" from Iraq.
		The task of halting the union's foray into politics has fallen mostly to the Republican Jewish Coalition, which, unlike the union, bills itself for what it is: a partisan organization.
		Judging by the union's vocal opposition to the war, the problem, if anything, appears to be the reverse: What is "good for the Jews" seems to concern the organization less than what is good for American liberalism.
	www.opinionjournal.com /extra/?id=110007725 (868 words)

	Saudi-American Forum - Alexander Knysh - Saudi Arabia Relations Information
		These Islamic movements in the territory of the former Soviet Union are frequently portrayed by both laymen and experts as incompatible and mutually hostile interpretations of Islam adopted by their adherents in an attempt to fill the vacuum left by the implosion of the Communist ideology and system of values.
		From the very outset, the secular post-Communist (some would say "neo-Communist") regimes of Central Asia and of some North Caucasian republics of Russia have viewed Islamic political activism as the greatest challenge and the gravest of threats to their, for the most part, authoritarian and oppressive rule.
		Interestingly, the anti-"Wahhabi" invectives in the Russian secular media and in the public pronouncements of the "neo-Communist" leaders are often reiterated by the official Muslim clergy of the Russian Federation affiliated with the so-called "spiritual directorates" of various ethnic groups and regions of the Russian Federation.
	www.saudi-american-forum.org /Newsletters/SAF_Essay_24.htm (3497 words)

	Democracy, Conservatism, and American Foreign Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The American values of democracy and liberty were summed up very well in Thomas Jefferson's notion of America being an Empire of Liberty.
		Americans were not as cynical as the British in pursuing power politics on the world stage.
		That being the case, American foreign policy does not have to be infuse d with some higher moral purpose-whether it be promoting democracy or any other principle or ideology abroad.
	www.heritage.org /Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/HL459.cfm?renderforprint=1 (2882 words)

	Philosophers and Freethinkers
		American lawyer, freethinker and orator, known as the Great Agnostic because of his antireligious views.
		William Faulkner wrote he was "the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs." Clemens maintained that the name "Mark Twain" came from his years on the riverboat, where two fathoms (12 ft or 3.7 m), or "safe water", was marked by calling "mark twain".
		He enlisted in the Union army at the age of sixteen; married Miss Nora M. Eiler of Atchison, Kan., Oct. 9, 1870; was a teacher for 15 years, then a writer and lecturer in support of free thought, his lectures being translated into German, French, Bohemian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian.
	www.realityspoken.com /philosophers (2902 words)

	American Conservative Union Foundation
		Progressivism entered American politics promising to solve these problems if the national government were only given sufficient resources and sufficient authority to plan effectively for the entire general welfare.
		It had some early success in the New Deal but ultimately broke down in the face of Madison's and Hamilton's "obstacle course" of divided powers and because the population was too "diverse," in Madison's terminology, and would not divide in the simple manner expected by the progressives.
		The premier systematic snapshot of the American populace is performed every few years by The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
	acuf.org /issues/issue36/050520news.asp (1349 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: The Godless Constitution: The Case Against Religious Correctness
		Americans are a people who like to argue about their origins.
		For example, the endlessly repeated claim that the Americans of 1776 were a devoutly religious and especially Christian people, that in the words of Governor Kirk Fordice of Mississippi ¨the early days of this Union.
		And run-of-the-mill Anglicans, who always outnumbered Puritans in the American colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, tended to be lazy church organizers, especially indifferent in the Carolinas, Virginia, and Georgia to the problems of staffing outlying parishes with competent clerics.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/godlessconstitution.htm (4042 words)

	Union Meeting House
		Built about a decade before the East Village Meeting House, the Union Meeting House in the village of East Montpelier is an outstanding example of Federal meeting house architecture.
		Union Meeting House, or Old Meeting House as it is now known, is typical of New England meeting houses because of its frame construction with white clapboards, rectangular form, gable roof, and steeple symbolizing its importance to the community.
		Union Meeting House stands on land that was originally designated as the town common of Montpelier, by Parley Davis, the first surveyor of that town.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/centralvermont/cv33.htm (391 words)

	337 page printout CHAPTER XII. 1 - GOING TO JAIL FOR A PRINCIPLE. THE events of 1879 teste
		The secular press almost unanimously condemned the conduct of the trial, the conviction, and the sentence that followed.
		President Wright replied that as the Liberal League was not an organization of Freethinkers as such, but a union of persons of all shades of thought and creed to effect an entire separation of church and state, send- ing a delegate to a purely Freethought congress would lead to misapprehensions as to its purposes.
		Recalling today the odium suffered by the organi- zation on account of its action on the Comstock laws, and even by Ingersoll although he opposed the motion to repeal, I conclude that it was an impolitic course for the organization to pursue.
	www.skepticfiles.org /think/50v1p2.htm (18851 words)

	The Angry American
		Traditional American populism was born on the prairie, as struggling nineteenth-century farmers focused their ire on the large, alien, impersonal forces of a rapidly industrializing economy—namely, the extortionist freight-hauling railroads and Wall Street banks to which the farmers were hostage.
		In the beginning, the Angry American Liberal was a Christian human-rights zealot embarked on a crusade ordained by a wrathful God against the original sin of the new republic: slavery.
		The Pragmatic American wouldn't be investing energies—and angers—in partisan causes if he or she didn't believe in the decent possibility of a payoff.
	www.theatlantic.com /issues/2004/01/starobin.htm (3499 words)

	American Conservative Union
		Since Iraq was drawn on the maps of a faraway colonial office in 1921, it has generated dozens of coups, eight Kurdish revolts, nine Shi'ite uprisings and three pogroms, all before Saddam imposed his terrible order on the local factions.
		A war with Iraq diverts attention from Jerusalem, shifts Arab anger eastward and inserts the American colossus as a stabilizing force into the region during the occupation that would follow a hopefully easy U.S. military victory.
		American troops have been in the Balkans for less than a decade but pressure to bring the troops home, especially when they rest upon the wide use of reserves, builds quickly in a democracy.
	conservative.org /columnists/divine/021120dd.asp (763 words)

	Removing the Cross: American and French perspectives \| The-Tidings.com
		The Framers of the American Constitution certainly created a secular government, but that government was not empowered to impose a secular ideology.
		Discussion of the First Amendment is also complicated by the common practice of rephrasing it into a mandate for "the separation of Church and State." This tends to lead people to adopt the French attitude toward Church and State, in that it implies that government is empowered to arrange the proper spheres of both.
		In other words, the secular State of California set itself up as the judge of who is a Catholic and what the inculcation of religious values entails.
	www.the-tidings.com /2004/0924/curry.htm (1441 words)

	"Broken Engagement " by Gen. Wesley Clark
		Their Project for a New American Century seemed intent on doing to President Clinton what the Committee on the Present Danger had done to President Carter: push the president to take a more aggressive stand against an enemy, while at the same time painting him as weak.
		Western labor unions, encouraged by their governments, aided the emergence of a democratic trade union movement, especially in Poland.
		Progress may come from a beneficent king, from enlightened mullahs, from a secular military, from a women's movement, from workers returning from years spent as immigrants in Western Europe, from privileged sons of oil barons raised on MTV, or from an increasingly educated urban intelligentsia, such as the nascent one in Iran.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2004/0405.clark.html (5159 words)

	The Godfather Of American Conservatism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Meyer was the ideological godfather of the conservative organizations and politicians who got their start in the late ’50s and the ’60s, from the Young Americans for Freedom to Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.
		For instance, when Robert Bauman was the head of Young Americans for Freedom in the early ’60s, he recalled hearing from Meyer as many as four or five times a night on the eve of an important board meeting.
		According to his son Eugene Meyer, his father’s conversion to Catholicism did not reflect an experience of Jesus’ divinity but rather the conviction that the evil of communism had to be balanced by the goodness of Christianity.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF0901/Judis/Judis.html (2757 words)

	Secular Union
		The rule is to hold out these honors as bribes for new-comers instead of conferring them upon those who have borne the heat and burden of the day.
		I hope that the American Secular Union will not be guilty of any such injustice.
		If there is anybody belonging to our Secular Union more enthusiastic and better calculated to impart something of his enthusiasm to others than Samuel P. Putnam, our secretary, I do not know him.
	www.infidels.org /library/historical/robert_ingersoll/secular_union.html (1839 words)

	Secular Americans Against Bush
		What unites these Americans is that they are struggling to keep their constitutional right to live simply without having religion forced upon them, by churches or by the government.
		Over the last four years, secular Americans have steadily realized that they cannot simply sit back and be content to focus on their own private lives.
		The American Civil Liberties Union is a deeply principled and powerful institution in secular American life, defending people regardless of their political or cultural perspective.
	www.irregulartimes.com /secularamericans.html (1080 words)

	American "Centrist" Orthodoxy
		The Union of Jewish Orthodox Congregations (commonly referred to as the "Orthodox Union" or: "OU").
		Established in 1898, this is largest union of American Orthodox congregations.
		Lobbying the American government on various issues of importance to religious Jews (and occasionally, on matters related to the welfare of Israel).
	www.acs.ucalgary.ca /~elsegal/363_Transp/Orthodoxy/Centrist.html (594 words)

	Freethought Today, May 2005
		Yet, for all his pompous, illicit evangelism, Scalia is not the principal threat to American secularism.
		The National Liberal League, the American Secular Union, the Freethought Federation of America, the Infidel Association of the United States, and the New York State Freethinkers' Association all serve as worthy examples of the ability of rational people to unite for a critical cause.
		Her speech,"How Secularism Became a Dirty Word," was published in the December 2004 Freethought Today.
	www.ffrf.org /fttoday/2005/may/krause.php (1212 words)

	Christopher Hitchens Interview
		Under one interpretation of the rules of multi-culturalism that is not kosher: you can't do that because you can't offend people in their dearest identity.
		But Mother Teresa was interviewed by Ladies Home Journal, a magazine read by millions of American women, and in the course of it she says that she heard that Princess Diana was getting divorced and she really hopes so because she will be so much happier that way.
		You are a secular humanist Englishman who is a leading commentator on American culture and politics.
	www.secularhumanism.org /library/fi/hitchens_16_4.html (5521 words)

	Humanistic Judaism
		The American Ethical Union is the home for the movement known as Ethical Culture or Ethical Humanism, another significant force in shaping North American Humanist ideas and actions.
		The Council for Secular Humanism is a leading organization for espousing humanistic principles and action.
		The Council for Secular Humanism maintains an extensive online library with articles from many humanist publications and essays on topics ranging from biblical criticism to modern political and social commentary.
	www.humanist-rites.com /links.htm (255 words)

	Council for Secular Humanism
		Important as separation of church and state is to American secularists, their case must be made on a broader plane that includes the defense of rational thought itself.
		To make an effective case to their fellow Americans, secular humanists must reclaim the language of passion and emotion from the religiously correct.
		The revitalization of American secularism in the twenty-first century depends upon its ability to convey the passions of humanism as Ingersoll did in the nineteenth, to move hearts as well as to change minds.
	www.secularhumanism.org /index.php?section=library&page=jacoby_24_6 (2536 words)

	Susan Jacoby talks about her new book 'Freethinkers,' history of secularism, atheism, nonbelievers, in U.S. -- ...
		The secularist strain in American culture has been very strong since the beginning, but the nation's secular heritage is virtually unknown to people.
		The effect of this was to enable them to proselytize for their own religion in ways that if there had been a union of established church and state they never would have been able to do.
		The history of secularism is also the history of a certain kind of religion.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/144/story_14451_1.html (799 words)

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