Secular state

Why Three Sister Nations Need to Stay Independent Every few years, a provocative proposal emerges that challenges the identities of three sister nations: the merging of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Although flashing with various benefits for each country, the proposition is simply outlined by award-winning economist Simon Mainwaring as, “Change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation, and consensus” (Mainwaring qutd. by BrainyQuote). This quote…

1) Secular stagnation can be considered as being a period where a market based economy suffers insignificant or no economic growth at all. In this case, the economy is unable to grow which leads to stagnation. However, the main difference between a structural stagnation and secular stagnation is secular stagnation affects the workers in a given country experiencing no economic growth while structural stagnation affects both unemployment in the country and constrained outputs in a global outlook.…

According to a contributor at Fox News, Steven Crowder, religious extremism is not the only kind of extremism in the world. He states that a more alarming form of extremism is called secular extremism. Secular extremism demonstrates the same terrorist ideologies but is seen in a more positive light, as its battle is ‘moral’ against that of the ‘evil’ theistic terrorists in the world. He uses the example of James Lee, who held innocent people hostage in the Discovery Center building to further…

war. In relation to works from the likes of Henry David Thoreau, Aimé Césaire, and the power of women like Rigoberta Menchu, Malala Yousafzai, Wangaari Maathai, and Vandana Shiva, the War Resisters League, which is the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States, perfectly demonstrates that war is not a viable solution to the problems today’s globally interconnected world. The power of women played a crucial role in the creation of the War resisters League. Although done…

religion and extraordinary secular religions. While Finke and Stark are trained as sociologist, their thesis is explained through the lens of free market…

Pennenberg’s response to secular western culture is presented in what he believe are the causes of the effects of secularism. His premise is build up around the loss of legitimacy in the institutional ordering of society. Pennenberg contends that without a belief in the divine origin of the world there is no foundation for order. I believe what he is conveying is that secularism alienate us from religion. He feel that religious wars and destruction of social peace prompted the historical…

The contemporary American society acquired the habit of throwing away values that the United States was founded upon. The United States was founded upon by Christian men, whom believed in God and in the Bible. Of course, societal individuals are not confined to the Christian belief. In Fahrenheit 451, Faber, an intelligent professor that Montag will meet in the latter part of the book points out: “ they’ve changed it in our ‘parlors’ these days. Christ is one of the ‘family’ now. I often wonder…

call upon Winthrop’s sermon to evoke patriotism. One example is John F. Kennedy’s “Address to the General Court of Massachusetts”. If Winthrop could see this speech, he would find the ideals espoused by Kennedy to be dissimilar and secular from his own. Kennedy states that he is following the principles of Winthrop saying “these are…

This essay is about the chapter 9 from the book ‘Tolerance and Governance’ written by philosopher/theologian Abdol karim Soroush. His writings reveal a genuinely liberal intellect rooted in his Iranian and Islamic culture but at home with Western thought, toward which he is neither aggressive nor apologetically defensive. Soroush, who has gained a following among Iranian students and even a few of the mullahs, cites the likes of Jalal al-Din Rumi, Muhammad Iqbal, Jorgen Huberman, and Alexis de…

logical explanations to questions once only religion could answer them. As a result, the church and religious authority as an important and influential that obviously undermined and many people took place secularized (= beyond religious lifestyle secular lifestyle). Following the process of secularization created a sense of confusion and non-belonging, and the Enlightenment and secularization used as a replacement for a lost religious identity development following the various fields of life.…