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Secularism   /sˈɛkjələrˌɪzəm/   Listen
Secularism

noun
1.
A doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations.





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"Secularism" Quotes from Famous Books



... their particular ministrations. This is one of the compromises, like the older method of Bible reading without commentary or exposition, which avails nothing and is apt to be worse than frank and avowed secularism. It is putting religion on exactly the same plane as analytical chemistry, psychoanalysis or salesmanship, (the latter I am told is about to be introduced in the Massachusetts high schools) or any other "elective," whereas if it is to have any value whatever it must be an ...
— Towards the Great Peace • Ralph Adams Cram
... loss of power that we remark when we compare with the religious art of past times the art which, every day more and more, is given us by the hurried and over-thrifty (may I say "Reach-me-down"?) hands of secularism. The great art of Greece and of the Middle Ages most often represents something which, to our mind and feelings, is as important, and even as beautiful, as the representation itself; and the representation, the actual "work of art" itself, gains by that added depth ...
— Laurus Nobilis - Chapters on Art and Life • Vernon Lee


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