Word: secularism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then one-year-old Harvard Secular Society (HSS), breaking mirrors and walking beneath ladders--in an elaborate "Vent by Smashing Superstition Bash"--was supposed to be no big deal...
...misrepresentation of their position. Most abstinence classes, they told us, don't deny human sexuality. In fact, the classes acknowledge the power of the human sex drive and provide young people with ways of dealing with peer pressure and dating in order to remain abstinent. The decidedly non-secular foundation of some of these chastity-based programs, however, render them irrelevant to the debate over sex education in public schools; initiatives like the Southern Baptists' popular "True Love Waits" have strong religious undertones, and their success seems largely dependent upon participants' religious conviction. These types of abstinence programs should...
...scientific. The conjecture heated up on Monday, when the Justices dismissed an appeal from a group of Vermont parents whose case includes some of the most controversial aspects of the school voucher debate. At present, Vermont, which has a 130-year tradition of tuition reimbursement to students who attend secular private high schools when there is no public high school in their district, does not extend that reimbursement to parents who choose, under the same circumstances, to send their kids to religious private schools. The plaintiff parents claim their children's religious freedom is violated by the state's refusal...
...yesterday," yells one man in the crowd. "The soldiers steal cattle, spare parts. They get drunk at night and shoot up the town. They harass you at checkpoints," says an engineer called Khasam, who now runs a photocopying service.Clean-shaven-- Chechen-Islamic political correctness demands full beards--and defiantly secular in his views, Khasam makes it clear that he is no supporter of the city's former rulers. The gunmen who ran the town before the Russians were no good, he says, but the troops are even worse. His view is moderate in comparison with the feelings of some...
...same ones fundamental to civil society. By nothing less than an actual vote among Post readers, Saying Grace was his most popular canvas. In a flyblown city restaurant, a boy and his grandmother bow their heads to pray while everybody else looks on. If the picture is about the secular world making space for the spiritual, which it plainly is, it's also about the larger notion of every tribe in American society making space for every other...