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	Encyclopedia: National Secular Society
		The National Secular Society is an organisation of the United Kingdom which promotes secularism.
		Secularism means: in philosophy, the belief that life can be best lived by applying ethics, and the universe best understood, by processes of reasoning, without reference to a god or gods or other supernatural concepts.
		A secular state is a state with no state religion and in which the state is neutral in matters of religion, neither supporting nor opposing any particular religious beliefs or practices.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/National-Secular-Society (1210 words)

	Atheism
		Atheism is more common in the secular countries of Western Europe and in former or present communist nations than in the United States, and more common among scientists, particularly natural scientists, than among the general population (see the relationship between religion and science).
		This is one nation under God." [1] Similar statements were made during the controversy surrounding the inclusion of the phrase "under God" in the American Pledge of Allegiance, words which were added to the pledge early in the Cold War period.
		In the 2001 Australian Census [1] 15.5% of respondents ticked 'no religion' and a further 11.7% either did not state their religion or were deemed to have described it inadequately (there was a popular campaign at the time to have people describe themselves as Jedi).
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/at/atheism.html (2177 words)

	BookTalk.org - Links
		Rationalist Society of India - Tarsheel Society Bharat
	www.booktalk.org /links.php (16 words)

	Freethought, AH Eden
		Many freethinkers endorse secular humanism (see: "The Affirmation of Humanism") because, it is argued, it defeats other moral codes (in particular humanistic ones) in satisfying the criteria of minimality and consistency (§1) and in proving resilience to critical examination.
		However many Dutch were forced to re-examine this value with the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist extremist, asking themselves whether Theo has crossed the lines in his open criticism of elements in Moslem societies for their oppression of women.
		Since most people are not used to question their convictions very often, the murder has left many Dutch with a sense of loss of moral direction, confusion and bewilderment, and even compelled some to extremism.
	www.eden-study.org /freethought.html (2029 words)

	British Humanist Association Family Network Links Page
		Contents Science and Creationism A View from the National Academy of Sciences, Second Edition
		Ethical Oasis - the place to refresh your mind and spirit
	humfam.humgroups.org.uk /BHA_Hum_Fam_Links.html (110 words)

	The Campus Inquirer
		As National Field Director for the Council for Secular Humanism, DJ Grothe serves as one of the coordinators of the Campus Freethought Alliance.
		DJ Grothe is National Field Director for the Council for Secular Humanism and a coordinator of the Campus Freethought Alliance.
		He is a member of the Council for National Policy, the National Association of Scholars, the American Philosophical Association, and the Society of Christian Philosophers.
	www.campusfreethought.org /inquirer/2003.04.07.htm (1607 words)

	National Secular Society - National Secular Society - Home
		The Archbishop of Canterbury’s defence of faith schools as promoting community harmony is described by the National Secular Society as disingenuous and self-serving.
		Keith Porteous Wood, Executive Director of the National Secular Society, addressed the Freedom of Expression Rally in Trafalgar Square on 25 March 2006.
		National Secular Society - National Secular Society - Home
	www.secularism.org.uk /index.html (619 words)

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		The Lecture was given at Trinity College Oxford on the 19th May 2005 and was discussed in the Law section of The Daily Telegraph on the same date.
		Web site built using the Cuttlefish Content Management System.
	www.secularism.org.uk (619 words)

	Bye-bye, religious parties (in Israel)
		They agreed that the era of religious political parties in Israel was coming to a close, that mixing politics and Judaism had been detrimental to civil society, and that an alternative way had to be found to instill Jewish cultural values into the body politic.
		The National Religious Party, by contrast, was founded in 1956 specifically to apply spiritual values to governing a modern nation-state.
		Ironically, the one religious party whose agenda had a society-wide reach then allowed a narrow issue – support for the settlement movement – to overshadow its spiritual goals.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1300304/posts (1140 words)

	Atheist Alliance International
		For individuals -- those affiliated with a member society as well as those who have no democratic atheist group in their area -- the Alliance publishes Secular Nation (a national quarterly magazine), and maintains computer contact with all interested parties through the Internet.
		Through the Alliance, members share information and cooperate in activities with a national scope, such as overcoming the religious-based bigotry of the Boy Scouts of America, which refuses to admit atheists to membership and holds that one cannot be a good citizen without a belief in their particular god.
		Applications for Alliance membership from democratic local, regional or international atheist organizations are always welcome.
	www.atheistalliance.org /aai (1408 words)

	MACHAR/The Washington Congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism
		We are one of several dozen Congregations affiliated with the national Society for Humanistic Judaism, whose headquarters are in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
		The Society for Humanistic Judaism works closely with the Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations (CSJO), particularly in the operation of the Leadership Conference of Secular and Humanistic Jews, which trains and certifies leaders (madrikhim/madrikhot) for our Congregations and our movement as well as Secular Humanistic rabbis.
		Machar/The Washington Congregation for Humanistic Judaism is part of a national and international movement of Secular Humanistic Judaism.
	www.machar.org /move.html (1408 words)

	Welcome to HSGP
		The AHA represents both secular and religious naturalistic humanism, and cooperates with other national and international humanist organizations to advance the ideals of humanism.
		The AHA organizes and supports local humanist chapters in many major American cities, is a full member of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, and provides support for other humanist organizations, including the Humanist Institute, the Humanist Society of Friends, the Friends of Religious Humanism, the AHA Feminist Caucus, and the Humanist Chapter Assembly.
		The Council for Secular Humanism cultivates rational inquiry, ethical values, and human development through the advancement of secular humanism.
	www.hsgp.org /affiliations.php3 (234 words)

	Paul Kurtz
		At the Sixth Congress of the Sheltered academics' Party of Skeptic in October 1980 he defined that modelling the whole of society on the Centers for Inquiry idea was the general task of the Secular Humanist revolution and advanced the ten long-term objectives of socialist economic construction to be reached in the 1980s.
		He raised national reunification as the supreme task of the nation when the country was divided because of the US imperialist occupation of south Skeptic and, ever since, he has wisely organized and guided the struggle to implement it.
		He effected the agrarian reform, nationalization of industries and other democratic reforms and thus victoriously carried out the tasks of the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution in the ern half of Skeptic in a short space of time.
	www.capital.net /~phuston/kurtzbio.html (1838 words)

	International Humanist and Ethical Union - About IHEU - Secularism Revisited
		A secular society is one that engenders in or elicits from its members readiness to change customary orientation towards or definition of values regarded as essential in that society.
		In the context of "State" or "Society", secularism means an endeavour on the part of State or Society to modernise the societal values and thus a policy of not being influenced by beliefs or values of any one or other religious group.
		At the root of secularism is the principle that the society should be founded on principles devised by rational inquiry into the universal nature of human social life.
	www.iheu.org /modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=93 (1838 words)

	Religious Pluralism and Israeli Society
		A modern Israeli society based on these two principles — the mosaic and pluralism — will also be a society in which major reforms can be implemented in the area of national identity, adapting religion and tradition to modern life, and institutionalizing spiritual moderation as a civic duty.
		Israeli society is in transition from “melting pot” to “mosaic.” The society as a whole can benefit from the flourishing of the unique traditions and ideologies of different ethnic and ideological communities.
		The secular Jew is equal to the Haredi, the traditional layman is not inferior to the Orthodox politician, and the rabbi is as respected as the professor, because all are situated on the same plane, that of equality among individuals and their opinions.
	www.wzo.org.il /en/resources/view.asp?id=1613 (1781 words)

	The Christian Nation Myth
		Lynn R. Buzzard, executive director of the Christian Legal Society (a national organization of Christian lawyers) has admitted that there is little proof to support the claim that the colonial population was overwhelmingly Christian.
		Some Christians were of course involved in the shaping of our nation, but their influence was minor compared to the ideological contributions of the Deists who pressed for the formation of a secular nation.
		Our founding fathers established a religiously neutral nation, and a tragedy of our time is that so many people are striving to undo all that was accomplished by the wisdom of the founding fathers who framed for us a constitution that would protect the religious freedom of everyone regardless of personal creed.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/farrell_till/myth.html (4545 words)

	Utopias -- Shaker Historic Trail -- National Register of Historic Places
		Intellectually, the Shakers were dissenters from the dominant values of American society and were associated with many of the reform movements of the 19th century, including feminism, pacifism and abolitionism: an Enfield Shaker's diary, for example, records the visits of fugitive slaves, including Sojourner Truth.
		The Harmonists reached their peak of prosperity in 1866, but the practice of celibacy and several schisms thinned the Society's ranks, and the community was finally dissolved in 1905.
		The Rappites: The Harmony Society, also called the Rappites, were similar to the Shakers in certain beliefs.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/shaker/utopias.htm (3051 words)

	Center for Cultural Judaism - News & Events
		The group is part of the national Society for Secular Humanistic Judaism, founded by Rabbi Sherwin Wine in 1963 with the creation of its first synagogue, the Birmingham (Mich.) Temple near Detroit.
		Secular humanistic Jews are on the opposite end of the spectrum from the Orthodox, the strictest in observance, who say only those who adhere to all the age-old religious laws are truly Jews.
		Secular congregations range from 500 families to small groups that gather in leased space or living rooms.
	www.culturaljudaism.org /ccj/news/6 (3051 words)

	Existentialism Philosophy
		His concept of an independent and self reliant society was abandoned with the rush to regiment a flawed national identity.
		A heritage founded upon faith has transmuted into a secular society that replaced God with a belief in the superman culture of egalitarianism.
		Rational society knew that repression was the inevitable result from the concentration of civic functions under the auspices of expanding government.
	existentialist.blogspot.com /2003_09_01_existentialist_archive.html (3431 words)

	AFA Special Projects - In God We Trust campaign
		Whereas the national motto serves "the legitimate secular purposes of solemnizing public occasions, expressing confidence in the future, and encouraging the recognition of what is worthy of appreciation in society" (Lynch v.
		Whereas the national motto is a reference to the Nation's "religious heritage" (Lynch v.
		Whereas the content of the national motto is as old as the Republic itself and has always been as integral a part of the first amendment as the very words of that charter of religious liberty;
	www.afa.net /igwt/statelaws.asp (3431 words)

	American Humanist Association
		Diverse organizations are joining the Secular Coalition for America, as exemplified by the latest additions of the Freedom from Religion Foundation and the Society for Humanistic Judaism.
		The 2006 National Drug Control Strategy, released today, is largely a continuation of previous approaches.
		As an AHA member, you can help decide who will serve on your board of directors.
	www.americanhumanist.org (325 words)

	Indian national congress - President - Smt. Sonia Gandhi - Speeches
		Congress nationalism is based on the best of Indian traditions and culture, a secular, pluralistic, liberal, all-inclusive nationalism.
		It was a nationalism that was all-inclusive and cosmopolitan, a nationalism that drew from India's past creatively, a nationalism that was not narrow or bigoted but that had an equal and dignified place for each and every Indian.
		Indian nationalism must continue to be liberal, open-minded, confident, rooted in the best of our traditions of mutual acceptance and accommodation.
	www.aicc.org.in /sonia_speech.htm (325 words)

	A Secular Democratic State: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
		The proposal to create what was then called a secular democratic state in Palestine was first propounded in 1969 by the left-wing PLO faction, the DFLP, and formally adopted in the modified version of a "democratic state of Palestine" by the PNC meeting that year.
		In the context of a unitary state solution, the bi-national state proposal is obviously less unacceptable, since it can be designed to mimic closely a two-state solution tipped in favor of the stronger side.
		The prominent Israeli sociologist, Sami Smoocha, who conducted several surveys of Jewish society since the 1970s, has observed that the Jewish public in Israel was 'both racist and rigid' and it was this which was the cause of the persisting Jewish-Arab conflict.
	www.abudis.net /karmi.htm (325 words)

	Sharon finally forges coalition to run Israel / 2 of the parties strongly oppose Palestinian state
		The turbaned spiritual leader of the Shas party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, denounced Sharon in characteristically colorful language as the "prime minister of garbage cans" for excluding his party, while Shas leader Eli Yishai accused the prime minister of betraying the religious and weaker sector of society.
		But Lapid, Shinui's feisty leader, has built his reputation on a secular platform, blasting exemptions from military service for Orthodox Jewish seminary students and strongly opposing religious authorities' control over marriages and burials.
		But in a move that belies his words, he has handed the Housing Ministry, which oversees settlement building, to the pro-settler National Religious Party.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/27/MN128772.DTL (1117 words)

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		The main founders of the NRP were Doctor Josef Burg (father of former Labor Knesset Member Avraham Burg) and Haim Moshe Shapira, who focused the party’s activities on religious matters and building a Jewish society rather than a secular one.
		National Religious Party (also known by the Hebrew acronym "Mafdal") identifies itself with religious Zionism and is affiliated with the settler movement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
		Established in 1956 with the merger of religious entities supportive of the Zionist enterprise, the NRP traces its ideological roots to Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the first chief rabbi of Palestine and originator of religious Zionist theories.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3020735,00.html (260 words)

	zhammer.txt
		He was, significantly, the first sabra NRP leader and he paved the way for a party more sure of itself in society's mainstream, less of a special interest group, less for sale, more nationalistic, and extremely vocal on issues far removed from local religious council politics.
		When he first appeared on the National Religious Party scene, the NRP was run by European-born politicians whose main objective was to bend with the prevailing political winds blown by the omnipotent Labor Party, and to somehow win concessions for various religious demands.
		That made him a unique phenomenon in the political arena - he could communicate with the secular and the religious, the hawk and the dove.
	www.jr.co.il /articles/zhammer.txt (1357 words)

	Poland - EDUCATION
		In the communist era, education was the chief mode of restructuring society and improving the social mobility of hitherto unprivileged workers.
		The education system was to prepare qualified employees for industry, to develop proper attitudes of citizenship in the Polish People's Republic, to propagate the values of the working classes everywhere, and to instill respect for work and national values.
		Education was specifically described as a function of the state, and schools were to be secular in nature.
	countrystudies.us /poland/42.htm (2365 words)

	Washington Office director linked to groups promoting atheism, secularism and Wicca - 5/14/03
		In pursuit of its advocacy programs, Americans United has partnered with various organizations, such as the Progressive National Baptist Convention, the Progressive Religious Partnership, the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Witherspoon Society, to name a few.
		It also has partnered with the Secular Student Alliance, which claims that its purpose is "to educate high school and college students around the country about the value of scientific reason and the intellectual basis of secularism in its atheistic and humanistic manifestations."
		Rob Boston, the assistant director of communications for Americans United, is a member of the advisory board for the Secular Student Alliance.
	www.layman.org /layman/news/2003-news-articles/washington-office-director-linked.htm (997 words)

	Theosophical Society in America
		Bradlaugh, president of the National Secular Society, had been her co-worker and co-leader of the free-thought movement since their first meeting at the Hall of Science in 1874.
		She was the elected President of the Theosophical Society from 1907 until her death.
		Archives of the Theosophical Society, Adyar, Madras (Chennai), India.
	www.theosophical.org /theosophy/questmagazine/marapr02/mackay (2939 words)

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