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

It's crude to tie up women.

But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,

But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,

But shun profane and vain babblings for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

But shun profane and vain babblings for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

The End of Secularism?

Your interests are worldly only.

A quaint custom, but one more honoured in the breach than in the observance.

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.

I think it's more social than religious.

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.

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.

Would you like something more cheerful and warmhearted, even a bit bawdy?

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

Life never ends but earthly life does.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

The staircase takes us from the experience of life as profane or ordinary upwards to the experience of life as sacred, or deeply interconnected.

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?