If that were the case, the minister suggested, he would be guilty of polygamy, illegal since 1993 under the laws of this determinedly secular land, and should forfeit the French citizenship he acquired by marriage in 1999.
The workshop, which also produces a steady steam of more commercial stuff for whoever wants to buy it, is a jumble of icons, past and present, real and fictional — a reminder that, for a largely secular land, China has cycled through more than its share of gods in recent decades.
They initially welcomed the invading force but then quickly became disillusioned at Garibaldi's reluctance to order the breakup of secular, landed estates.
They hold a mirror to the societies he visits, coaxing rare debate about spiritual matters in distinctly secular lands; they offer the body language, the tantalizing hints, the sideways glances that give tangible expression to theological nuance; they provide the scripted symbols, the ecclesiastical theater, that the Vatican presents as the choreography of faith.
Benedict's opening address followed the publication of an interview in which a senior Vatican adviser described Britain as a "secular, pluralistic" land that had fallen prey to "a new, aggressive atheism".
Those looking for that proverbial pullback, or trapped in secular bear land, will be forced to cover shorts and go long, scrambling for the performance that eluded them this past year.
Accordingly, Grandy et al. [37] and Leinweber et al. [38] found that strong predictive character of oxidation and the depletion rates of plant-derived lignins on the intensity of microbial transformations occurred both in less degraded systems, such as forest ecosystems, as well as in secular cropped lands.
During that era, Christianity was seen as either a universally valid basis of the state or a faith that harmoniously coexisted with the secular law of the land.
Dolan was supposed entice Catholics to stay (and tithe) in a hemorrhaging and retrograde church while making Catholic law the (secular) law of the land.
Numerous institutions and concepts of canon law have influenced the secular law and jurisprudence in lands influenced by Protestantism: e.g., marriage law, the law of obligations, the doctrine of modes of property acquisition, possession, wills, legal persons, the law of criminal procedure, and the law concerning proof or evidence.
To today's haredim a Zionist state means one that upholds Jewish law; to the religious-Zionist settlers, one that returns the Jewish people to all of their biblical lands; to the secular left, a state that is democratic and liberal yet manages to maintain a Jewish majority.
