Sentence examples for secular morality from inspiring English sources

In an interview with the Journal du Dimanche, Vincent Peillon, the Socialist government's Minister of National Education, called for the revival of la morale laïque, or secular morality, in primary schools.

At the Immanent Frame, Akeel Bilgrami explores the nature of secularism, and at The New Individualist, Ed Hudgins asks whether there can be a secular morality.

The presenters did differ on where a secular morality might come from.

Hardly the moment, it seems, to hold a national debate over the teaching of secular morality.

Zuckerman argues that secular morality is built around individual reason, individual choice and individual responsibility.

"Secular morality hinges upon little else than not harming others and helping those in need," Zuckerman writes.

But the festival, which drew hundreds of thousands to packed prayer services at churches throughout the city, mass confessions at Circus Maximus, and the Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum, was as much a Special Olympics of the soul -- a huge, often grueling effort by young Catholics to show the world that not all of today's youths live in a secular, morality-free zone.

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.

"But in the world of secular liberalism, morality is the motive that dare not speak its name.

La Chute reveals a preoccupation with Christian symbolism and contains an ironical and witty exposure of the more complacent forms of secular humanist morality.

"Ayn Rand is the only voice that offers a secular absolutist morality with a positive vision and agenda, for individuals and for society as a whole," he says.