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secular

If something is secular, it is not religious or important in a religion. The national anthem of the United States is secular.

secular

of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows the secular clergy (= worldly, temporal) characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world worldly goods and advancement temporal possessions of the church (= profane) not concerned with or devoted to religion sacred and profane music secular drama secular architecture children being brought up in an entirely profane environment (= laic, lay) characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy set his collar in laic rather than clerical position the lay ministry (= layman) someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person

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Topics secular topics

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  • What words refer to those areas of life outside of religion?

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Simple sentences

I believe that education should be secular, not rooted in religion.
Yaakov is a secular Jew.
Jacob is a secular Jew.
Matthew is a secular Christian.
January is the first month in the secular calendar.
December is the last month of the secular calendar.

Movie subtitles

Is it not crazy to wake up statues so suddenly from their secular sleep?
So we can't get used to secular things.
The charge is a secular issue.
Recant or we'll abandon you to the secular power.
The Church abandons you to the secular arm.
We, Bishop of Beauvais, decree that you, like a rotten member infecting other members, be cast out from the unity of the Church, sundered from her body and handed over to the secular power.
We pray the same secular power to moderate its judgement short of death and mutilation of the limbs.
I'm going back into the secular world.
Rejoin the secular world, slanderer!
You didn't like it in the secular world?
I can't continue sinning and without sin you cannot live in the secular world.
My madness is on a smaller, more secular scale.
The secular arm.
And now, on with the secular festivities!
Church music, friend, is the foundation of all secular musical art.
Secular conventions, crowd, handshakes.
Got any theories on how this happened? - Secular or divine theories?
Secular. Like your insurance, we don't cover acts of God.
You have no idea what happened to Sister Yvonne? She chose a secular life.
As Spain is now a secular Republic, consider yourselves married.
Your more secular entertainments would be totally out of place.
Remember what the master said-- we must discover the spirit of Buddhism in the secular world.
Doesn't it also stand to reason that they would walk away From the derivative, diluted, secular figure of Santa Claus?
I got my Masters in Divinity then left the seminary to do secular humanitarian work coordinating Third World churches.
The peasants got together here when the secular authorities called for a parish meeting in the vestry.
How can you protect corrupt secular laws?
Elegant barbel see those secular mustache?
Secular joke.
Holocaust survivors are secular saints.
Is the show more religious in tone or secular?
Take heed of this charitable admonition for if you persist in refusing our help we shall have no choice but to abandon you to the secular powers.
Secular scientists?
My goal, Madam, Sir, and I don't think it will surprise you, is to form good French citizens, with secular morals and classical taste.
It's a fundamentally secular society.
All people of the secular world will look up to you.

News and current affairs

Likewise, other elements of Turkey's secular establishment, including the President and the military leadership, either opposed or were lukewarm, at best, to the idea of war in Iraq.
This has given new strength to those who want Turkey to develop in another direction, towards a more Islamic society instead of a modern secular state.
But many ideological hawks are secular nationalists, and their jargon is similar to that of typical Central and Eastern European nationalists.
Meanwhile, propping up secular dictators in the Middle East with US arms has helped to create Islamist extremism, which cannot be defeated by simplysending more drones.
Majority support for democracy in a country with no prior secular and nationalist history seems counter-intuitive.
Supporters of democracy tend to be less religious, more secular, more tolerant of others, more critical of public-sector performance, and more concerned with Western cultural invasion.
At the same time, an anti-clerical, secular movement on behalf of constitutionalism appeared in Iran - a reaction to the absolutist alliance between the Quajar Shahs and the religious establishment.
So, yes, government spending provides a short-term boost, but there is a trade-off with long-run secular decline.
Secular stagnation threatens the West, accompanied by rising protectionism sentiment.
If the First Lady wears a headscarf, maintained the secular-minded elite, the whole secular system could be undermined.
The most recent example is Turkey, where a courageous prime minister has confirmed the secular (rather than Islamist) rule of law, sought to modernize the economy, and has kept the military out of the Cabinet.
But when major structural and secular challenges arise, as is the case today, the advanced countries' institutional architecture acts as a major obstacle to effective action.
The environmental movement is a new secular Christian creed, for which saving Spaceship Earth has replaced saving souls.
Nevertheless, the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a secular state, as are almost all sub-Saharan African states.
Whether they like it or not, the majority of sub-Saharan African Muslims are represented by states that are mostly secular, Christian, or dominated by other religions.
Moreover, secular spiritual leaders like Gandhi, Schweitzer, and King have vanished, annihilated it seems by our new fetishes--success, expediency, gain, and special interests.
For a world flirting with secular stagnation, that is disturbing news, to say the least.
American policy has also contributed to a growing conflict between Islamist and secular forces in Muslim countries.
Indeed, secular dictators have worked to suppress the Brothers at every turn - often violently, as when Assad ruthlessly crushed a Brotherhood-led uprising in Hama in 1982.
Within months, Islamist parties shaped by the Brotherhood's ideology had replaced secular dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, and seemed poised to take over Yemen and Syria, largely because they were the only well-organized political movements on the scene.
As a result, after only a year in power, the military - backed by the same secular, liberal young people who had opposed it in 2011 - drove President Mohamed Morsi out of power.
Some argue that the absence of a secular liberal option in Arab politics stems from fear of political Islam.
But, with the decline of secular nationalism and Islamism's rise, the hidden electoral power of the Muslim Brotherhood poses a mortal threat to the regime and its strategic alliance with the West.
We live in an age in which many people are disillusioned with secular politics, and are turning to religion instead, not only throughout the Muslim world, but in the core of Western civilization, Christian Europe and Evangelist America.
As products of revolutionary military takeovers, these secular nationalist regimes failed to produce genuine popular legitimacy and have had to fall back on the dynastic succession practiced by the regimes they toppled.

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