Sentence examples for secular perspectives from inspiring English sources
The poorer a country, the more "religion remains central to the lives of individuals, while secular perspectives are more common in richer nations".
The court observed that the club clearly promoted community welfare through moral development but did so from a religious perspective and through openly religious activities, such as religious songs and biblical stories, unlike other groups, such as the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, and the 4-H Club, which approached the same issues from secular perspectives.
Individualism as Tocqueville understood it, with its endorsement of private enjoyments and control of one's personal environment and its neglect of public involvement and communal attachment, has long been lamented and criticized from both the right and the left and from both religious and secular perspectives.
Theology aside, his argument also has implications for people who are interested in guilt and accountability from a secular perspective.
It is, from a secular perspective, at the heart of what makes Mr. Gold's god sufficiently real that he treats it as more than himself.
A common factor in these pieces about Isis is that they ultimately reflect a western secular perspective: jihadi characters tend to "see sense" in the final scenes.
My Iraqi colleague agreed that despite his own strongly secular perspective, he still believed that honest faith healers fulfilled an important role in a war-ravaged country with a severe shortage of mental health professionals.
"He detests the news that the public gets through NPR and believes it is slanted from a distinctly liberal and secular perspective," said Patrick Vaughn, general counsel for Mr. Wildmon's American Family Radio.
The first, "Devarim," was set in the cosmopolitan bustle of Tel Aviv, and the third, "Kadosh," which was shown at Film Forum last year, explored, from a decidedly secular perspective, the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods in Jerusalem.
One of the highlights of Rudnick's research for the movie was his visit to a convent where the former movie star Dolores Hart had chosen to take the vows of poverty, chastity, etc. From a secular perspective, the nuns didn't seem to have all that much fun — a marriage to God is a lot of work — but the archives show that's not always the case.
We all know why, of course: Its hard to abandon the media St. Tropez of Manhattan and the urbane, secular perspective that comes with it, if you can keep citing the Economist as a model for turning things around.
