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or laic
as in irreligious
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Because materialism had an irreligious connotation, Hattem says it was left out of the national conversation until the Gilded Age of the 1920s, when people start saying the quiet part out loud.
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This story is told by an unnamed narrator, an irreligious woman who has joined the nuns as a lay resident after her faith in environmental advocacy crumbled.
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Yet as the populations there shrink, populations are booming in less prosperous and less secular regions, including Africa and the Middle East.
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The encyclical has attracted serious attention from secular quarters as well.
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In lay terms, that means the court's ruling is not based on whether the judge approves or disapproves of what Comb's is accused of.
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However, lay reading is not the way that people have, historically speaking, interfaced with the classics.
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His father's death during World War II influenced his pursuit of the ministry even amid the officially atheistic communist regime of the Soviet Union, according to his obituary on the OCU website.
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But there has been a recent rise in secular congregations that explicitly mimic religious organizations and rituals to celebrate atheistic worldviews.
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Solstices are often associated with pagan religions and draw revelers of different faiths.
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There’s more than a tinge of folk horror to this lingering mystery, which brings to mind the 1973 genre landmark The Wicker Man, in which a puritanical police officer travels to a remote island community that’s reverted to old pagan ways.
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These are not social Democrats, these are hard-core, godless communists.
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What better way to distinguish God-fearing Americans from the godless communists of the Soviet Union than to put God on the money?
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Keith also co-founded the nondenominational evangelical church and is vice chairman of its elder board.
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Evangelical and nondenominational, the church broadcasts internationally through KCM and its Victory Channel as well as online.
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One of those laws, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, states a charter school must be nonsectarian.
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The National Day of Prayer, while officially nonsectarian, has long been drawn particular promotion and participation from evangelical Christians.
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