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secular 1. of an education, etc. a. having no particular religious affinities b. not including compulsory religious studies or services 2. (of clerics) not bound by religious vows to a monastic or other order 3. Astronomy occurring slowly over a long period of time 4. a member of the secular clergy secular [′sek·yə·lər] (engineering) Of or pertaining to a long indefinite period of time. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Benedict cannot have it both ways: he cannot retrospectively conjure up a spiritual solidarity with the Jews of the Holocaust while at the same time denouncing the secularizing forces that resisted the church's authority in the name of freedom and dignity for Jews. Modernity's historical, social and psychological modes of thought can be said to be "atheistic," not in the theoretical sense of an explicit denial of the gods, but in the secularizing sense of non-sacramental explanations. But opponents of the displays say secularizing the Ten Commandments hurts religion. |
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