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Amid strong signals of an early Lok Sabha poll, dissidence on Monday surfaced in the ruling RJD here with a senior member of the state cabinet Ramai Ram criticising the move by the party leadership to persuade Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader Ramvilas Paswan to join the secular alliance.

Most Palestinians are too secular to choose a Hamas-led government, Egypt and Jordan fear the consequences for their own regimes and the international community vehemently rejects the option.

Yet unlike that hotbed of religious fervor, the people here tend to be secular and non-ideological.

For Western society, procreation is much less than the awe-inspiring goal and duty we once, so to speak, conceived it as being — through theological or secular reasoning, either one.

But in western liberal societies the choice is between a peaceful engagement and survival of the fittest or a likely violent conflict brought about by the imposition of secular liberalism over Islam.

He belongs to a species once common throughout the United States, now a rare bird: he is a pragmatic secular rationalist - and the most interesting thing to happen to American politics in a long generation.

Why the composition should be assumed to have occurred at the earliest date in biblical history (but not in secular history) defies explanation.

Protestant conservatives were also polemicizing against the new secular sciences, but for religious and traditional reasons, Catholic and Protestant objectors to secular scholarship were unable to make common cause.

Our age, more jaded and skeptical in the face of successive disappointments, can pay it at least backhanded compliments, acknowledge its strengths as well as its weaknesses, and recognize that it provided the standpoint from which to make a telling critique of its secular rivals.

Even in periods when Jews had no option at all of secular cultural activity, the evidence of what they composed in Hebrew argues that they never ceased to respond to the literary dimension of the Bible, however fervently they saw it in doctrinal or theological terms.

When confronting resistance from a secular or religious spokesmen, some biologists attempt to deflect criticism by conflating scientific methods with scientific goals.

To Haldane as well as to most other biologists, religious objections to tampering with the natural or secular sensibilities that privileged the natural carried no weight.

Palermo was a more Americanized place these days, and freer - women using cell phones, men in blue jeans, even the nuns looked somewhat secular in their dowdy dresses.

It was a liberal, secular, enlightened movement, all three of whose great leaders, Mazzini, Garibaldi and Cavour, were philosemites; and it had already freed them.

The Passion of the Christ (that lofty second "the" enforcing Jesus's role as the Messiah) is certainly a distinctively personal movie in a blandly secular Hollywood culture.

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