Not that secular progress hasn't always been an issue.
One would expect such groups to denounce democracy, capitalism and ideas of secular progress, preferring perhaps spiritual missions to "liberate people".
Our relentless pursuit of secular progress, unabated by theocracy, the "old ways" or dogma of any kind made us the greatest economic power in history, and relegated the rest of the world to being mostly fast-followers.
This has been his philosophy throughout his career, and it is the source of his deeper affront against the entire project of secular, liberal progress, which is rejected in the melancholy of his prose.
As her secular therapy progressed, she also felt that she would gain from "Christian counselling"—and she is now training in that field herself.
Modern government, for one thing, according to Nukhaev, not to mention urbanization, pollution, secular education, scientific progress, economic growth, globalism and multi-racialism.
In the 20th-century symphonic repertoire, both sacred and secular, continued to progress through the music of Marcel Dupré, Maurice Duruflé, and Herbert Howells.
In the 1850s a progressive philosophy was in full flight in the larger world, ready-made for Latin American visionaries: French Positivism, a doctrine of progress and secular religion, centered on hope in modern science, led by Auguste Comte.
I, too, remained part of an autocratic society that repressed women and ignored their progress in the secular world.
She makes an analogy between the oppression and subordination of women in Saudi Arabia and her membership in the Catholic Church, or as she put it, "an autocratic society that repressed women and ignored their progress in the secular world".
This passionate defense of the Enlightenment ideals of scientific rationalism and secular humanism argues that human progress is a measurable fact and that the current moment is the best ever.
