Sentence examples for secular belief from inspiring English sources

Social science underscores our secular belief.

The great ideological struggles of the 20th century had ended: secular belief systems (most notably fascism and communism) had been overwhelmed or come sputtering to irrelevance.

Moments such as this are none too subtle, and Trier's view — that religious faith is, in essence, the demolition of instinctual joy — has become a standard secular belief.

Since it is part of a theological, not secular, belief system, male-only ordination is better understood as a matter of religious freedom, not of civil liberties.

Anonymous, California It is my secular belief that having made a sincere declaration of your intention to continue your son's religious education, you behaved honorably.

I was trying to make a point about journalists: that we would not hesitate to ask about a nonmainstream secular belief — space aliens or the danger of immunization — but we tend to back away from matters of religion.

Like his fellow-transcendentalists, he was suspicious of tradition and institutions, and regarded personal intuition and direct revelation as superior foundations for both spiritual and secular beliefs.

Shaffer shows just how religiose our secular beliefs are: Christianity had told us that we needed to value what we were tempted to dismiss.

The signal illusion from which America has to awake in Iraq and everywhere else is that it serves God's providence or (for those with more secular beliefs) that it is the engine of history.

I don't mind that George W. Bush holds strong religious convictions, but as president, he represents people of all faiths -- Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims and so on -- as well as those who hold to more secular beliefs.

The problem with our contemporary secular beliefs is that they're either makeshift, or entered into unconsciously, simply as a necessary operating system for our busy and digitised lives.