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But, of course, our secular religion is technology.
But compassion is also equally at home in the secular as in the religious.
The second largest group, with nearly 30 million, is the one described as non-religious or secular.
This secular non-religious vote, if properly mobilized, is nine times as numerous as the Jewish vote.
That Iran was once a secular society, and we had democracy, and this democracy was stolen from us by the American government, by the British government.
And when the colonial period ended, what you had in place of that was generally secular dictators, which say they're a country, but did not bring democracy to the country, and established their own dictatorship.
And I think the West, at least some powers in the West, particularly the United States, made the mistake of supporting those secular dictators, thinking that they were more helpful for their interests.
In 1950, Turkey had the first free and fair elections, which ended the more autocratic secular regime, which was in the beginning of Turkey.
That's why the EU process, Turkey's effort to join the EU, has been supported inside Turkey by the Islamic pious, while some secular nationalists were against it.
But the pro-EU sentiment in Turkey in the past decade has become almost an Islamic cause and supported by the Islamic liberals and the secular liberals as well, of course.
I grew up white, secular and middle class in 1950s America.
And everybody was amazed when the refrigerator opened, and millions of young, mainly secular people stepped out to do the change.
The secular world is full of holes.
Now education is a field the secular world really believes in.
What's the difference between a sermon and our modern, secular mode of delivery, the lecture?
Another point about education: we tend to believe in the modern secular world that if you tell someone something once, they'll remember it.
In the secular world we think, "If an idea is important, I'll bump into it.
In the secular world, you can come through the university system and be a lousy speaker and still have a great career.
Now art is something that in the secular world, we think very highly of.
The people in the modern world, in the secular world, who are interested in matters of the spirit, in matters of the mind, in higher soul-like concerns, tend to be isolated individuals.
AB: I would say that there are many, many gaps in secular life and these can be plugged.
What's missing is that we are Homo duplex, but modern, secular society was built to satisfy our lower, profane selves.
But where, in our increasingly secular and fragmented world, do we offer communality of experience, unmediated by our own furious consumerism?
I was fully aware that for someone as secular as I am, just asking it could be seen as pure chutzpah.
Now, Gaza, Syria, Sudan, Ukraine, as ghastly as these conflicts are, and they are horrific, they represent a relatively small blip upwards in a 50-year-long secular decline.
The secular bioengineering student is quite active on social media.
We accept things in our religious lives that we do not accept in our secular lives, and I know this because I've been doing it for three decades.
But what utterly shocked me was throughout all of this work I received equal measures of vitriol from the secular left, the same vehemence as the religious right.
And what my secular friends didn't realize was that this religious hostility, these phrases of, "Oh, all religious people are crazy or stupid."
The other thing that the secular left and the atheists and the orthodox and the religious right, what they all don't understand was why even care about religious activism?
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