Sentence examples for secular reasons from inspiring English sources

I came to Sintra for secular reasons.

Apart from religion, the state sometimes imposes restrictions for purely secular reasons.

The answers might be found in more secular reasons as opposed to religious ones.

It is beside the point that the State may have legitimate secular reasons for providing such aid.

Meanwhile, activists like Reed have learned to stress secular reasons (Israel is a democracy, a reliable ally) for their position.

Elmbrook School District v Doe asks whether the first amendment bars a state school from holding public functions in a church building for purely secular reasons.

Far from marking the extreme limits of secular reason, the Terror was a faith-based initiative, the guillotine the instrument of another kind of auto-da-fé.

Here where the pope sends religious messages and statues of saints stand against the sky, Dimitri Auerilio comes regularly for a strictly secular reason: to send his mail.

But the grand march of secular reason would continue, with more and more societies joining the modern west in marginalising religion.

He's draping himself the mantle of secular reason even as he talks misleadingly about biology and declares that some of the most crucial questions about justice, the law and human rights are eternally inaccessible to reason.

If we suppose that the interviewer in this case genuinely "thought Elauf was wearing the scarf for a secular reason," the standard set by the majority would still put Abercrombie on the hook for failing to accommodate her attire.