Sentence examples for secular thought from inspiring English sources

"There is a strange, new radicalism abroad," he argued, "which refuses to respect the conventions of secular thought and value".

This view, according to Mr. Scalia, once represented the consensus "not just of Christian or religious thought, but of secular thought regarding the powers of the state".

Reconstructionists do not believe in the literal truth of the Hebrew Bible, and Rabbi Eisenstein, even in his last years, continued to goad Reconstructionist communities toward rethinking the traditional Jewish liturgy in light of modern secular thought.

Abir hesitated, torn by the idea of leaving behind his research on the use of telemedicine in rural areas and still tied to the challenge of carving out a school of secular thought in the increasingly polarised country.

"People need to be clear you can't use the guest editorship as a lever to do a secular Thought for the Day or a backdoor way to open up a Thought for the Day debate".

In schools around the country — especially in Upper Egypt, a particular stronghold of the militant groups — the Islamists had basically seized control of the educational system, assaulting secular thought, altering school texts, and playing cassettes of radical sermons of popular sheikhs in class.

Except to say that he is perhaps the thinker who best illustrates the transition from a religious to a secular thought-world.

Her attackers, however, did not agree and when asked to explain their actions, Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said that the young girl had become a symbol of "Western culture" in the area and was propagating anti-Taliban and "secular" thoughts among the youth there.

However, as Schlosser says: "The problem with nuclear deterrence is that it requires secular rational thought on both sides of the equation.

What leaps out of Elizabeth Rubin's soul-wrenching article (June 30) is the frightening fact that fanatic religious dogma filled the vacuum and provided a raison d'être for aimless, desperate Palestinian youth, where secular, rational thought might have provided a more useful form of patriotism.

He is the author, most recently, of "Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Secular Jewish Thought" (Princeton University Press, 2010).