Secularist
noun
A person who believes that religion should not have any place in civil affairs or public education.
The secularist argued that religious symbols should not be displayed in public schools.
Often appears as...
- hardcore secularist
- leading secularist
adjective
Relating to the principle that rejects religion and religious considerations.
He is known for his secularist views and writings.
Often appears as...
- secularist views
- secularist writings
noun
A person who believes that religion should not have any place in civil affairs or public education.
The secularist argued that religious symbols should not be displayed in public schools.
Often appears as...
- hardcore secularist
- leading secularist
adjective
Relating to the principle that rejects religion and religious considerations.
He is known for his secularist views and writings.
Often appears as...
- secularist views
- secularist writings
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Public Sphere
Secularist is often used in discussions about the role of religion in government and public life.
The secularist movement seeks to maintain a separation between church and state.
Pro Tip 2/3Misconception Alert
Secularists may be religious or not; their key belief is in separating religion from public policy.
Despite being a devout Christian, she is a secularist when it comes to politics.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Sensitivity
In some societies, expressing secularist ideas can be controversial or even dangerous.
He was cautious when discussing his secularist views in a community with strong religious ties.
Pro Tip 1/3Public Sphere
Secularist is often used in discussions about the role of religion in government and public life.
The secularist movement seeks to maintain a separation between church and state.
Pro Tip 2/3Misconception Alert
Secularists may be religious or not; their key belief is in separating religion from public policy.
Despite being a devout Christian, she is a secularist when it comes to politics.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Sensitivity
In some societies, expressing secularist ideas can be controversial or even dangerous.
He was cautious when discussing his secularist views in a community with strong religious ties.
Pro Tip 1/3Public Sphere
Secularist is often used in discussions about the role of religion in government and public life.
The secularist movement seeks to maintain a separation between church and state.
Pro Tip 2/3Misconception Alert
Secularists may be religious or not; their key belief is in separating religion from public policy.
Despite being a devout Christian, she is a secularist when it comes to politics.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Sensitivity
In some societies, expressing secularist ideas can be controversial or even dangerous.
He was cautious when discussing his secularist views in a community with strong religious ties.
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A kinder, gentler...
he's going to do that on the Day of Judgment, with angels and trumpets, and the skies will open. Insane idea, if you're a secularist person, like me. But something very valuable in that idea, nevertheless. In other words, hold your horses when you're coming to judge people. You don't necessarily know what someone's true value is.
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A kinder, gentler...
he's going to do that on the Day of Judgment, with angels and trumpets, and the skies will open. Insane idea, if you're a secularist person, like me. But something very valuable in that idea, nevertheless. In other words, hold your horses when you're coming to judge people. You don't necessarily know what someone's true value is.
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Quote examples
Pawel Pawlikowski
Polish Director
My father's mother was a secular Jew who died in Auschwitz. I only found out as an adult because my father never talked about it. He was a secularist and never defined himself in ethnic terms - partly, I think, because he was scared; partly out of the habit of not talking of such things; partly because he didn't like being defined by other people.
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Elif Safak
Turkish Author
My readers are surprisingly mixed. I have conservative readers - for instance, women with headscarves - but also many liberal, leftist, feminist, nihilist, environmentalist, and secularist readers. Next to those are mystics, agnostics, Kurds, Turks, Alevis, Sunnis, gays, housewives, and businesswomen.
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Karen Armstrong
English Writer
Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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Pat Buchanan
American Journalist
Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools.
Quote examples
Pawel Pawlikowski
Polish Director
My father's mother was a secular Jew who died in Auschwitz. I only found out as an adult because my father never talked about it. He was a secularist and never defined himself in ethnic terms - partly, I think, because he was scared; partly out of the habit of not talking of such things; partly because he didn't like being defined by other people.
Quote examples
Elif Safak
Turkish Author
My readers are surprisingly mixed. I have conservative readers - for instance, women with headscarves - but also many liberal, leftist, feminist, nihilist, environmentalist, and secularist readers. Next to those are mystics, agnostics, Kurds, Turks, Alevis, Sunnis, gays, housewives, and businesswomen.
Quote examples
Karen Armstrong
English Writer
Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
Quote examples
Pat Buchanan
American Journalist
Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools.
Example 1 of 4
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