Secular in a sentence as a noun

Contrary to popular belief, it's not that we are secular or free.

Is it for or against a more secular society in the Middle East and Muslim countries?

The people view the Military as preserving the secular ideals of the country.

Except now, he's in bed with the Krishna's, instead of finding a personal and secular path to meditation.

However, we live in an at least nominally secular society.

Turkish secularists are seeing this as a move away from democracy, rather than towards.

I think the main problem is that we live in an increasingly secular society, but nothing has actually replaced church.

If they're performing a charitable function, they can easily do so as a secular charity.

It also has been pushing an Islamic agenda, slowly and surely moving the country away from its secular roots.

The remains of the secular, pan-Arabist, Nasserite parties have been what the US has attacked in recent years - Iraq and Libya.

!Compared to the rest of latin america or the US, Uruguayans are much more like Europeans in terms of being very secular.

Secular in a sentence as an adjective

I mean, to us it might sound ridiculous to say that your country should matter more than your morality - and I mean secular morality here.

By and large, India is a secular nation, and that notion is oft repeated and maintained by media, politicians and the like.

Osama bin Laden himself asked that if he wanted to attack secular, democratic states, why didn't he attack Sweden?

Arab nationalism was against current foreign policy of Saudi Arabia and was in fact pretty secular and very progressive for its time.

Most people here, or college-educated NPR or Fox News listeners I know think it is against it, and that the US wants to promote a more secular, moderate form of Islam around the world, as do allies like Israel.

The US and England threw out the secular, democratic Mossadegh in Iran in the 1950s, and then the CIA helped the Shah's Savak jail or **** off anyone in the country supporting a return to a secular democracy.

Having our kids giving their daily state worship by saying a "prayer" and physically submitting themselves to a state icon is something that I would expect would upset both secular people like myself and religious people.

The military has historically been the guard of the official state ideology, ie Ataturk-ism, which is secular, nationalist, and in opposition to Islamic rule.

Obama recently made the call for more intervention in the secular, Nasserite government of Syria and , surprisingly, some mainstream opinion noted he would in some fashion be supporting Al-Qaeda - which is true.

That is, if you take the moral teachings of your church seriously enough to act on them in the context of democratic processes and/or public discourse, then you need not aspire to, apply for or expect to hold on to a publicly visible secular job, such as CEO of a corporation.

Hmm, if China was the global superpower and invaded the US, and installed/supported some regional Christian dictatorships... what would happen if a film came along and really rubbed in the humiliation?In the real world, Iran's in our crosshairs, and it turns out that the US and UK overthrew their secular parliamentary democracy, installing the brutal Shah.

Secular definitions

noun

someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person

See also: layman layperson

adjective

of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations

adjective

characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world; "worldly goods and advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church"

See also: worldly temporal

adjective

not concerned with or devoted to religion; "sacred and profane music"; "secular drama"; "secular architecture", "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment"

See also: profane

adjective

of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows; "the secular clergy"

adjective

characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy; "set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"; "the lay ministry"

See also: laic