The End of Secularism?

They ensure that India remains secular, democratic and pluralistic.

Why has religion returned to secular and democratic politics?

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.

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

Now profane is the opposite of sacred.

Your interests are worldly only.

I accuse myself of worldly desires.

You mustn't say such things about Melanie.

Oh, don't be cynical.

But, of course, our secular religion is technology.

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

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.

Do you enjoy acting the cynic?

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

The deliberate weakening of secular democratic forces in many parts of the world over decades left the fundamentalists as the only vehicle for popular dissent.

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

We have the charmless misanthrope.

The lower level he called the level of the profane.

Upon leaving this spark of earthly existence,

You're not leaving with that cynical remark?

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

It is only through a strengthening of those secular democratic forces that we can hope to gain the upper hand in the battle against terrorism.

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

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.

Who said I was a cynical, hardhearted newspaperman?

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

Life never ends but earthly life does.

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

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

International League for the Rights and

Consideration of the question of traditional practices by the United Nations

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

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

And I like the words, in my world, because it gives possession of the world to the person who's doing it.

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

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

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

Are you firmly resolved... to despise the honors, riches... and all the vain pleasures of this world... in order to prepare for a closer union with God?

You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world