Titlebook: Hallowed Secularism; Theory, Belief, Prac Bruce Ledewitz Book 2009 Bruce Ledewitz 2009 atheism.democracy.future.globalization.god.history.h

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The Open World, Hackbacks and Global Justiceaterialism is the third great tradition in which people find orientation and meaning in reality. Indeed, of the three—religion, humanism, and materialism—materialism is the one that is growing in importance today.

Obsessed

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-808-9erhaps I am not the one who should have written this book. I was raised in a fully religious home and community. I went to religious schools. You could say that God has intervened in my life. I speak to God even now. My journey to secularism has been long and twisting.

Collected

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Extemporize

Introvert

ambivalence

The Framework of Hallowed Secularismhis chapter begins the process of defining and specifying our longing. Secularists want to belong to a meaningful whole and feel cutoff instead. We want justice to triumph while we worry that it may not. We are willing to die without hope of any future life, but we want to experience the world to come here on earth.

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The Local Life of Hallowed Secularismhis chapter is about the tone of life. I am trying to explore what Hallowed Secularism might feel like. Is it rushed? Is it beautiful? Is it holy? I ask this on three different levels: family, ritual, and prayer.

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Beyond Religion begin with religion because religion has always been humanity’s starting point. Every human culture has worked out its relationship with divine reality. We secularists can admit that historically. We can accept it still for other cultures, but we may be surprised that religion continues to undergird the West.