Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12 2. This is resistance and reformation

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Like modern art or an avant-garde poem or the latest Hout fashions,

secularism has always been hard to define. Though often pronounced with algebraic lucidity, its topsy-turvy logic is as unintelligible as the dog

Latin of monkish hexameters. In practice, it's an odd attempt to forge a cultural

consensus on the fact that there really can be no cultural consensus. It is the unspoken assumption

that a happy and harmonious society can be maintained only so long as the only common belief is that

there are no substantial common beliefs. It is the reluctant affirmation that the only moral

absolute is that there must not be any moral absolutes. It is the brash affirmation that meaning and purpose in life may best be found in meaninglessness

and purposelessness.

Philosophers and historians might argue that secularism is merely the inevitable fruit of enlightenment,

materialism, skepticism, pragmatism, and utilitarianism. But social theorists point out

that the smothering influence of partisan ideology, which is now everywhere evident, rest in control of every academic

discipline, of every cultural trend, of every intellectual impulse, even of every religious revival

in our time, ideology has become the organizing construct of the secular society.

From Nazism and Stalinism to pluralism and multiculturalism, from liberalism and

conservatism to monopolism and socialism, ours has been an epic of movements beguiled by the temporal seductions

of ideological politics. Nearly every question, every issue, every social dilemma has been

and continues to be translated into legal, juridical, economic, or political terms.

They are supplied with bureaucratic, mathematical, or systemic solutions.

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