Sentence examples for secular basis from inspiring English sources

"It must answer questions about living without God, face issues concerning forces beyond our control as well as our own responsibility, find a satisfying way of thinking about what we may know and what we cannot know, affirm a secular basis for morality, point to ways of coming to terms with death and explore what hope might mean today".

If we leave Ennahda alone, I think that the secular basis of our debate could quickly change to a debate of a religious vision of the state and that would be a very big catastrophe".

Another dimension of the housing problem is that we need, for demographic and other reasons, to build somewhere between 1.7 million and 1.8 million houses a year on a secular basis.

In fact, the AKP has not touched the secular basis of the republic in any way.

Romney's long interest in volunteerism stemmed from the Mormon belief in the power of institutions to transform the individual, but also had a secular basis.

For much of the period, the Scottish all-age rates of lung cancer were the highest reported in the world; they are now decreasing on a secular basis in men, but are still increasing in women.

Turkey was founded on a secular and nationalist basis, but now we no longer consider moderate Muslims to be a threat and are beginning to accept the Kurds' identity.

This would offer a secular, non-supernatural basis for purpose, meaning, and value.

In the Enlightenment, philosophical thinkers confront the problem of developing ethical systems on a secular, broadly naturalistic basis for the first time since the rise of Christianity eclipsed the great classical ethical systems.

The Dalai Lama stressed the importance of secular ethics as the basis of moral teachings, as he said that morality based on religious teaching cannot be universal.

As supporters of tuition vouchers were quick to point out, the case opens the next front in their long-running effort to establish what they describe as a neutral playing field on which explicitly religious activities can stake a constitutional claim to public support on the same basis as secular activities.