With the decision, the Church is acknowledging the importance secular society places on equality, signalling that it wants to end its isolation from the lives of the people it serves.
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.
The emperor then exiled Arius, an act that, while manifesting a solidarity of church and state, underscored the importance of secular patronage in ecclesiastical affairs.
The C of E is the principal beneficiary of the VAT relief given uniquely to repairs to listed places of worship - something that secular buildings of equal importance to our heritage and equal architectural value are denied.
Overview of Lesson Plan: In this lesson, students consider the importance of secular holidays celebrated around the world, researching holidays in various countries and creating patchwork quilts to illustrate their findings.
From the Byzantine period onward, fortification became an essential factor for both monastic and secular settlement, emphasizing the importance of the mountain regions and of "perched" sites above lowland.
Their study presented descriptive empirical evidence that illustrates the inverted U-shaped relationship between body weight and income in U.S. males, suggesting the importance of secular trends in weight gain, which are consistent with the impacts of broad-based technological changes.
"It is through the search for God that the secular sciences take on their importance".
But he also underscored the importance of a secular state, which he described as "the freedom to believe or not, to practice a religion and change your faith".
As the God in his sermons became more abstract, he retained the habit of preaching about the sacred importance of seemingly secular topics like generosity.
However, he soon upset his pious hosts by preaching about the importance of a secular government that provides freedom of religion, using the Turkish word "laiklik" — derived from the French word for secularism.
