They ensure that India remains secular, democratic and pluralistic.

The great gift of secularism, in turn, has been tolerance. Despite horrific twentieth century backsliding in Europe, secularism has served to blunt the edge of bigotry, because secular reasoning, unlike divine revelation, is never conclusive.

The End of Secularism?

Your interests are worldly only.

As the political philosopher Larry Siedentop has argued, secularization is Christianity s gift to the world. According to Siedentop, features specific to Christianity led to liberal individualism, and they are absent from the other great world religions.

The Algerian secularists strategy of exclusion, fraud, cheating, and gerrymandering backfired badly Islamists were perceived as victims, while secularists with some exceptions were cast as unprincipled opportunists. Enforcing a secular constitution before elections does not guarantee a secular outcome.

Now profane is the opposite of sacred.

You mustn't say such things about Melanie.

Oh, don't be cynical.

I accuse myself of worldly desires.

Do you enjoy acting the cynic?

We have the charmless misanthrope.

But, of course, our secular religion is technology.

(iii) Be sensitive to both culture and gender

How to bridge the gap in developing countries between secular, more or less Westernized urban elites and the rural poor is an old question. One solution is to enforce secular modernization by oppressing the poor and their religious organizations.

What's missing is that we are Homo duplex, but modern, secular society was built to satisfy our lower, profane selves.

You're a couple of cynics. I'm very fond of him.

Develop programmes to record traditional knowledge and preserve customary cultural values, traditions and practices.

But then, given the way of the world, things change.

Life never ends but earthly life does.

Reference was made to the need to protect and preserve cultural diversity and avoid cultural stereotypes.

Reference was made to the need to protect and preserve cultural diversity and avoid cultural stereotypes.

Furthermore, the administration of schools and clinics associated with religious institutions would be secularized although the existing staff would be retained.

The lower level he called the level of the profane.

Women are of the earth, realistic, dominated by physical facts.

Upon leaving this spark of earthly existence,

You're not leaving with that cynical remark?

Don't listen to him, he's a cynic.

a witness to the vision which the world has largely lost.

But compassion is also equally at home in the secular as in the religious.

Who said I was a cynical, hardhearted newspaperman?

The manners and customs of a country reflect its culture.

Oh, but, Edith, I am not a cynic, only a realist.

Go, my children... divest yourselves of the vanity of this world.

Bigcity people are more cynical... They're more sinful, too.

Without me, she will fall to the impure worldly might.

37. The award of prizes is a tradition in many countries of the world.

The Federal and State Governments are secular in this country.

Why is there such disparity between the secular realm and the sacred?

Now, the conventional wisdom was that Nigerians don't read literature.

I remember putting that film out and going to cynics.

Why has religion returned to secular and democratic politics?

Such earthly matters are beneath me. We are allies, are we not?

I understand why you, a manhater, love him so much

But at the moment that multiculturalism s advocates were making this suggestion, Dutch society was undergoing a dramatic transition. With secularization taking hold, the traditional pillars began to break down.