I'm contented to stand observing the customs of your country.

The End of Secularism?

These naturalist constructions were founded upon the notion of a higher authority and divine reason, and rooted in morality.

Your interests are worldly only.

Now profane is the opposite of sacred.

You mustn't say such things about Melanie.

Oh, don't be cynical.

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

I accuse myself of worldly desires.

Do you enjoy acting the cynic?

To set up custom and tradition observatories within local communities

We have the charmless misanthrope.

But, of course, our secular religion is technology.

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.

In this view, national identity, is a spiritual concept based on a common history and set of values. Some of these values are rooted in a kind of secular Christianity, and others in the Enlightenment s revolutionary beliefs about human rights, equality, the French language, secular schooling, and the idea that the state is responsible for the common interest and application of republican principles.

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.

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

Life never ends but earthly life does.

104. In the area of protection of the civilian population, the work of ICRC was to obtain respect for the lives and physical integrity of civilians, while the work of human rights observers was to re establish civil society and restore the population s enjoyment of civil and political rights.

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 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.

The complexity of those matters was also becoming ever more apparent. and it would not be possible to side step either the question of the impact of those practices on the enjoyment of human rights or the problem of their relation with the deeply rooted social values and standards in various parts of the world.

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.

However, the impact of traditional values and customs continued to be felt.

They ensure that India remains secular, democratic and pluralistic.

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

The Federal and State Governments are secular in this country.

Many non government organizations, both secular and religious, also opposed the resolution. Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, said that that body saw the resolution as weakening the rights of individuals to express their views.

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