Word: irreligion
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...antipathy, the final stretch before Christmas, and the impending Christmas break, is still greeted with unmitigated glee. Certainly, Christmas in America has lost most of its religious flavor, as atheists, secular Jews, and other non-Christians all eagerly mark with merriment the Yuletide occasion. Given this mix of irreligion and desire nevertheless to celebrate a gift-giving holiday, Christmas festivities, decorations, and attitudes around campus have taken on an eccentric flavor...
Last week, Ireland voted to end its ban on divorce by a painfully narrow margin. This disappointing development may indicate that the irreligion and secularism so widely regarded as hallmarks of "modernity" may have infilitrated one of the few nations still committed to calling its citizens to Christian living. The issues that were raised during the debate over the divorce ban demonstrate why such a ban is a good idea even for a nation committed to secularism...
...Beware of the false teachings, the immorality and the irreligion that Harvard will attempt to feed you," the letter continued. "If they feed you this poison, spit...
...Party is hostile to independent scholarship. This shows best in the religious arena, where Fundamentalists think all positions but their own -- those, for instance, of a Mario Cuomo or a Jesse Jackson, of a Bill Moyers or a Marian Wright Edelman -- are not truly religious but masked forms of irreligion. It is hard, even for many sincerely devoted to religion, to have a useful discussion with Fundamentalists who consider them satanic...
Most damaging of all is a doubling of "back door" losses since the 1960s, especially as younger adults bred in Establishment churches drift into irreligion. "Most Episcopalians who have left have not gone over to the conservative churches," says Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning. "They have gone nowhere...