When suggesting turning a secular into a religious state, the religious should worry about getting what they ask for.
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It seems that even intelligent Greeks failed to realise this was a secular not a religious ritual and interpreted it as hubris: treating a mortal man as if he were a god.
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Investing in a secular bear is very different than investing in a secular bull.
The important Iraqiya List is dominated by Sunnis, but represents itself as a secular movement and is led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a secular Shia.
Saddiq Zaman Khattack, a candidate for the Awami National Party, a secular party with a strong ethnic Pashtun support base, was shot and killed as he returned from Friday prayers, police said.
But it looked as if the party with the most votes was the one led by Mahmoud Jibril, a sensible modernising reformer who claims to be something between a secular liberal and a mild Islamist.
But the divisions between Megawati Sukarnoputri, the daughter of Indonesia's first leader, Abdurrahman Wahid, leader of a large rural Muslim group and a champion of secular Islam, and Amien Rais, who is popular among urban Muslims and has recently been preaching a secular message of national unity, have long prevented them from pulling it off.
Locals consider it a secular sin to order a coffee take away.
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This Muslim country has been a secular bastion since its founding as a modern republic in 1923.
The chief argument I hear being made against this being a secular bull is that no prior secular bull has ever begun from a PE multiple above ten on the broad market.
Mr. ANDRAE CROUCH (Musician): That's sort of the way that I feel right now, because I think that because of a lot of the secular music - a lot of it, I feel, kind of frightens people, because of some of the artists and their lifestyles.
But despite his desire for a secular democracy in Iraq, he wanted a country that recognized the importance of religion, religious institutions and its authorities.
But the late (Jewish-born) Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, was a staunch defender of the secular state as a bulwark against all forms of fundamentalism.
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Also, what will be the impact of the long-term cultural movement away from consumerism and toward a Secular Spiritualism that places greater value on a simpler life?
Consumption has seen a secular improvement, but it is more of a stabilizing force rather than a shot in the arm.
Take India, which once aspired to be a secular state, and whose constitution calls for a uniform civil code for all citizens.
England is an odd place: a secular country where an established church still has a role in public life (and, on the ground, does much unsung good).
Though we encountered plenty of Turks who drink during our travels, our guide worried about how this would play out in the future in a country that, while officially secular, has a population that is 98% Muslim.
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This is especially useful since a secular court would not be permitted to decide a contract dispute, for example, between two parties who had explicitly agreed to adjudicate their disputes according to Jewish law or Catholic canon.
And he will use his visit to Britain to further pursue this theme, questioning whether a secular society brings real freedom, or merely a free-for-all in which the strong are able to dictate the rules by which the weak will live.
In a secular bear market, however, that strategy is a prescription for disaster.
At the center of the new Great Game is Moscow's effort to put the squeeze on Azerbaijan, a secular Muslim state whose President, Heydar Aliyev, once a member of the Soviet Politburo, welcomes Western investment.
Given that retirees over this decade and longer are confronting the conditions of a secular bear market, it is important to start with a reasonable expectation about future returns and market conditions, then to apply appropriate investment strategies and approaches.
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But the government, which describes Bangladesh as a secular democracy, has rejected the group's demand for a new law on blasphemy.
To a secular leftist who has traded the very idea of sin for a more flexible moral view, there is only one remaining outrage: hypocrisy.
And given Turkey's history as a secular democratic state that respects the rule of law, but is also a majority Muslim nation, it plays a critical role I think in helping to shape mutual understanding and stability and peace not only in its neighborhood but around the world.
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"A secular state does not mean that the people are atheists, " Erdogan told a television show in Cairo.
The banks have been in a secular bear market since February 2007, and in my view 2011 looks like a potential replay of 2007.
"France is a secular society, so it's very different from other countries where religion plays a large part in the question of marriage, " he said.
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