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Since Europe's wars were mostly fought in Christianity's name, there is no bright line between the sacred and the secular.
ECONOMIST: A history of Christianity
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It was invented by a bunch of Puritans who celebrated freedom by throwing a party, and so bequeathed us with a holiday both secular and sacred, with parades and prayers that dare us to reckon with all that has changed, and all that has not.
FORBES: Happy Halloween, Let's Think About Thanksgiving
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These amount to a social canon of judgments about good and evil, complete with secular sacred history, sins (against minorities and the environment), and saints.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel's ruling class
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New True Levelers legally occupy the prestige pulpits of our nation, secular and sacred.
FORBES: How A Failed Commune Gave Us What Is Now Thanksgiving
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Like Bridge Over Troubled Water and Stand By Me, it's in a genre you might call "secular sacred" - as at home in choral versions on Songs of Praise as it is in the record collections of atheists.
BBC: Smashed Hits: How political is What A Wonderful World?