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		Secularists, however, use the term in a more amplified sense, as embodying a philosophy of life, and inculcating rules of conduct that have no necessary association with any system of theology.
		The Secularist, knowing these facts, together with the equally demonstrated truth that both the Old and New Testaments are contradictory in their statements and teachings, estimates the book by its merits, and not by its supposed authority.
		True, the Secularistic fabric may be slow in its erection, as imperceptible as is the construction of a coral reef; it is, however, certain in its growth.
	www.textfiles.com /occult/cathech.d (6424 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : A Clash of Orthodoxies
		Secularists would have us believe that marriage is a social and legal convention that in a variety of possible ways serves a purely emotional bond between two persons.
		Secularists cannot honestly say, however, that these arguments appeal to religious dogmas or fail to state public reasons for, say, forbidding abortion and euthanasia, or preserving the institution of marriage as traditionally understood.
		Most sophisticated secularists have concluded that relativism is ultimately inconsistent with many of their own cherished moral claims, particularly those having to do with claims about rights—the right to abortion, the right to sexual freedom, the right to die.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=1389 (5667 words)

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		Secularist Conferences, meeting in 1852, 1855, and 1860, were able to establish respectively a "preliminary" constitution, a "provisional" committee, and a "central" committee, but all these proved abortive.
		The basis of the attack of these Secularists on the churches was, of course, the fact that, speaking in general, the religious bodies impeded the removal of abuses in society, indirectly by the inculcation of non-earthly attitudes among the people and directly through the furtherance of interests associated primarily with the upper classes.
		The Secularist vision of a material and social world devoid of the supernatural element was distasteful to the general run of churchmen, as were the individual reforms which the Secularists advocated.
	www.elastic.org /~fche/mirrors/www.textfiles.com/politics/secular.txt (14521 words)

	Our secularist Democratic party
		The secularist putsch in the Democratic party had the opposite effect on its rival, which over time came to be seen as more hospitable to religious traditionalists and less appealing to more secular Republicans.
		Secularists were most distinct with respect to the coolness they displayed toward the traditional two-parent family, their greater tolerance of marital infidelity, and their intense support for the prochoice position on abortion.
		Secularists also distinguished themselves from moderates and traditionalists by the antipathy they expressed toward Christian fundamentalists (38 degrees on the thermometer scale) and their belief that the involvement of religious groups in politics is divisive and harmful for society.
	www.thepublicinterest.com /archives/2002fall/article1.html (5294 words)

	Pontifications » Blog Archive » “Secularism seeks to establish itself as the nation’s public ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		For example, secularists may counsel against promiscuity, but will do so not on the moral ground that it damages the integrity of people who engage in it, but rather on the prudential ground that it courts disease, unwanted pregnancy, and general unhappiness—which of course it does.
		Most orthodox secularists would have us believe that their positions are fully and decisively vindicated by reason and therefore can be judged to have been displaced only on the basis of irrational or, at least, nonrational faith.
		Secularists are in favor of a “religious freedom” that allows everyone to believe as he wishes, but claims based on this “private faith” must not be the grounds of public policy.
	catholica.pontifications.net /?p=755 (1636 words)

	A History Of The British Secular Movement
		Secularist efforts were also exerted to secure the removal of a number of indirect restrictions on the press which took the form of taxes.
		Aided thus by Secularist contributions, and by the exertions of publishers and members of Parliament, the Association was successful in its operations; as early as 1853 the duty on advertisements was removed; the year 1855 saw the abolition of the newspaper stamp; the paper duty disappeared in 1861.
		Paralleling the activity of the early Secularists in advancing the doctrines of Secularism was the expenditure of Secularist energy in a campaign against the churches.
	www.infidels.org /library/historical/john_mcgee/british_secular_movement.html (17273 words)

	FT May 2004: Opinion: The Politics of Partisan Neutrality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Secularists are not outsiders fighting to gain a foothold in the Democratic Party; they are the regnant wing of the Democratic Party, and have been so for over three decades.
		Secularists and traditionalists each expect their political representatives to take their side on such issues, particularly when casting roll-call votes in the House and Senate.
		A senator’s vote was coded “secularist” if the position taken on the bill was in accord with a majority of secularist sentiment (and in opposition to a majority of religiously traditionalist opinion) on this type of issue in the ANES and Pew surveys.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0405/opinion/demaio.html (2329 words)

	Robert P. George -- A Clash of Orthodoxies
		For example, secularists may counsel against promiscuity, but will do so not on the moral ground that it damages the integrity of people who engage in it, but rather on the prudential ground that it courts disease, unwanted pregnancy, and general unhappiness--which of course it does.
		Here again, orthodox secularists are stuck, not because they have been beaten over the head with the Bible, but on the plane where they have made the argument--the plane of rationality.
		Most sophisticated secularists have concluded that relativism is ultimately inconsistent with many of their own cherished moral claims, particularly those having to do with claims about rights--the right to abortion, the right to sexual freedom, the right to die.
	www.orthodoxytoday.org /articles/GeorgeClashOrthodoxies.htm (5696 words)

	The Gospel and the Secular Mind
		Although all secularists, by definition, share a common set of operating assumptions grounded in the illusions of mastery and self-sufficiency, these assumptions are manifested in a variety of patterns.
		He is a child of a culture that has systematically laid a foundation for, and catered to, those who desired to interpret their lives from a purely materialistic perspective which holds that any meaning, purpose or ultimate fulfillment is to be found in the worship and service of the finite.
		Even though all secularists share in the assumption of the irrelevancy of God, are blind to the finiteness of the finite and see morality as relative, do not be too quick to generalize.
	www.greatcom.org /resources/tell_it_often_tell_it_well/chap08 (3375 words)

	Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
		I challenge liberal secularist ideologies that have established themselves as orthodoxy on college campuses and in the elite sector of the culture generally.
		The question of the power of the judiciary to advance secularist ideological goals is important not only in the United States, but increasingly in Europe and other parts of the world as well.
		Secularists seek to justify destructive research on embryonic human beings, and even the creation of human embryos by cloning and other processes for the precise purpose of experimentation.
	www.zenit.org /english/visualizza.phtml?sid=14945 (2097 words)

	The secular inquisition - The Washington Times: Commentary - December 08, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In the United States, secularist fundamentalism dominates academe, where speech codes are regularly used to harass any religious organization whose views on particular moral questions offend groups privileged by secular fundamentalism.
		Secularist fundamentalism also rears its head in the political realm.
		Anyone who desires genuine, open conversation in the public square should be on notice that secularist fundamentalism is rapidly infecting public life and that we sacrifice committed and worthy public servants if we allow witch hunts and Borking in the confirmation process.
	www.washtimes.com /commentary/20041207-082732-1550r.htm (878 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Secularist double standards
		The secularists tell us with no small degree of passion that the reason we must keep church and state separate is that if the state, with its enormous power, endorses a particular religion, it will, in effect, be chilling the religious freedom of those of other religions.
		But while the secularists demand a strict separation, in certain cases where to do so, as we see, harms the freedom it is designed to protect, in other cases they fail to invoke the principle at all.
		If separating church and state were truly their goal, they would surely object more strongly to a court's direct interference in the private business of a specific church – on a matter no less important than its membership – than to the state's tenuous, indirect endorsement of a religion as in the school examples.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38493 (787 words)

	Melody of the Torah
		Even though this secularist differed in opinion from his traditionally observant friends, he still visited his old friend, the city Rav, on a regular weekly basis.
		The next week the secularist came at his customary tea time and sat with the Rav, chatting amicably in the parlor.
		As the time pressed on, the secularist felt uncomfortable because the Rav had not offered to return him the money that he had lent to him so willingly and with out a note.
	www.inspirationalstories.com /5/528.html (547 words)

	The Secularist Prejudice
		Secularists, unlike C. Snow’s scientists and their foes, are not confined to a donnish little world.
		Yet Michael Dukakis, the first truly modernist candidate in our politics, as trustful of secular values as of technology, was a man isolated from his fellow citizens, while George Bush was accepted by ordinary Americans as their spokesman, despite his elite (verging on effete) background.
		The secularist prejudice may be useful to those wanting to get ahead in certain fields; but in politics one does better to cultivate, as have all our recent presidents, the religious prejudice.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=817 (2329 words)

	The shameless secularist in our midst
		A babu, wrote Bankinchandra, is one "whose deity is the Englishman, preceptor the Brahmo teacher, scriptures the newspapers and pilgrimage the National Theatre".
		He would, of course either first say that his Hinduism, whatever that is, is of a different kind or merely go further to insist that it is a myth that must be exploded.
		It is this kind of secularist who infests the English media and spreads poison and hatred in the country.
	www.fisiusa.org /fisi_News_items/Godhra/godhra0133.htm (1419 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : How to Point Out Seven Self-Refuting Secularist Propositions
		This essay briefly demonstrates that seven secularist premises are self-refuting.
		Most of us have been in discussions that are like two ships passing in the night, due to the variance in presuppositions upon which the respective positions are based.
		Those who think they are avoiding authority are simply substituting, say, the authority of the secularist worldview for the authority of the Church.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=678 (1302 words)

	THE WHEEL OF LAW: INDIA’S SECULARISM IN COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT
		The Indian secularist model differs from the others both in the way it sees national identity and in how it seeks to preserve religious liberties.
		Many Indian secularists claim that the Indian Supreme Court should have upheld the convictions of all the Hindu nationalist politicians accused of inappropriate religious speech, rather than overturn all but one conviction, as the court did.
		The author expects continuing tensions in such a renewed secularist project between the need for cultural autonomy and pressures for uniform treatment, but anticipates less need for the differential treatment of communities in an indefinite future.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/Jacobsohn03.htm (2564 words)

	Secularist E
		Western secularists who think of biblical Christianity as "an obstacle to progress" had better think again.
		I think a secularist is anyone that believes in the separation of Church and State, so to me, you are a secularist.
		Christians in the western countries generally regard the separation as important for the good of the countries as well as the good of Christians themselves.
	members.shaw.ca /tfrisen/humanism/secularist_email.htm (718 words)

	Secularist Agenda, Political Blog: Gravier House Press - Gravier House Press
		But then he seemed to always be talking about the "secularist agenda".
		Now, I don't know exactly what the "secularist agenda" is, but, whatever it is, I'm thinking it's probably preferable to any "religious agenda" that might be floating around out there.
		But the principles embodied in the Bill of Rights; the vision of the Founding Fathers; the Secularist Agenda, as it were; is that people's lives shouldn't generally be directed by the beliefs of others.
	www.gravierhouse.com /blogpost4.html (788 words)

	Secularist Imposters' bete noire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It was not due to the Marxist notion of dialectical progression that the Buddhists in Afghanistan were converted, but because of the invading savage hordes with the Quran in one hand and the sword in the other, who massacred those ‘Kafirs’ who refused to embrace Islam.
		The fake secularists terrorism rests on their monopoly of the publicity media.
		The pseudo secularists may not go to the extent of killing the dissidents.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0401/111.html (1753 words)

	Loss of Innocence And The Secularist by Claudia Keelan, ISBN 0820318027
		A pilot is caught-up in an anti-war conspiracy and agrees to become a CIA agent to solve it.
		Those influences, or teachers, are as varied as literature, family, and organized religion.
		Through many voices, The Secularist shapes new poetic forms through which God may be glimpsed.
	knightmareapparel.com /loss.htm (139 words)

	The Commanding Voice Of Auschwitz
		As a secularist, he views the modern world as a desacralized world from which all gods have vanished.
		And the Jewish secularist, no less than the believer, is absolutely singled out by a Voice as truly other than man-made ideals--an imperative as truly given—as was the Voice of Sinai.
		Today, the distinction between religious and secularist Jews is superseded by that between unauthentic Jews who flee from their Jewishness and authentic Jews who affirm it.
	christianactionforisrael.org /antiholo/v_auschwitz.html (919 words)

	http://www.qando.net/ - Mission Impossible?
		A secularist political party is neutral as between religion and irreligion: It believes that moral issues "have no place in politics" and replaces such issues with the idea of "fair and equal" treatment of all "lifestyles", all beliefs about what is permissible and what is not.
		The distinction between a secular and secularist party is dead on.
		As this Public Interest article on "Our Secularist Democratic Party" shows with sociological studies, the Democrat core - the secularist - have an attitude about evangelicals not dissimilar to the attitude anti-semites have about Jews.
	www.qando.net /details.aspx?Entry=392 (2770 words)

	The Religion Report - 10/10/2001: Ibn Warraq: Why I Am Not A Muslim
		Secularist Muslim intellectual Ibn Warraq - not his real name - was born on the Indian subcontinent and educated in the West.
		He believes that the great Islamic civilisations of the past were established in spite of the Koran, not because of it, and that only a secularised Islam can deliver Muslim states from fundamentalist madness.
		You have a secularist philosopher called Sadiq al-Azam in Syria for example; you have some very courageous individuals in Egypt, in Tunisia you have Muhammad Sharfi, who's a secularist.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/stories/s386913.htm (3305 words)

	The “Theonomic-Secularist” Debate Within Islam
		Saddam Hussein stands in the “secularist” tradition of Kemal Atatürk and Abdel Nasser, not in the “theonomic” tradition of Mohammed, Qutb and Osama bin Laden.
		Indeed, they view the secularist Muslim, Hussein, not unlike a really conservative Christian might view a Jimmy Carter or, especially a Bill Clinton: there may be a common loyalty to the nation that overrides a lot of issues, but the relatively “secularist” Baptists, Carter and Clinton, are generally viewed with contempt.
		Given the philosophical gulf between the “theonomic” Osama and the “secularist” Saddam, is their common bond of Pan-Arabism and hatred of America and Israel sufficient to cause them to stand together in real unity, or are they simply using each other as cobelligerents, each viewing the other as ultimately expendable?
	www.rbvincent.com /islamictheonomy.htm (807 words)

	Middle Eastern Studies: Religiosity, support for Seriat and evaluations of secularist public policies in Turkey.@ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Religiosity, support for Seriat and evaluations of secularist public policies in Turkey.
		One such confrontation is between the secularist and pro-Islamist forces, which has always been one of the centrepieces of Turkish electoral politics.
		The rise of pro-Islamist electoral forces from a marginal to an undeniably imposing position in Turkish...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:116341975&refid=holomed_1 (225 words)

	* www.Azadizan.com *
		Maryam Namazie (center) with Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee and Keith Porteous Wood, Executive Director of the UK National Secular Society Maryam Namazie, inveterate campaigner for the rights of women and refugees in Islamic countries was named as the winner of the inaugural Irwin Prize for Secularist of the Year last Saturday.
		The BHA congratulates the Secularist of the Year
		Maryam Namazie wins the Irwin prize for Secularist of the Year award
	www.azadizan.com /english (256 words)

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