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What is Secularism? "Secularism espouses the cause of the world versus theology; of the secular and temporal versus the sacred and ecclesiastical. Secularism claims that religion ought never to be anything but a private affair; it denies the right of any kind of church to be associated with the public life of a nation, and proposes to supersede the official influence which religious institutions still exercise in both hemispheres." George Holyoake was an English freethinker and one of the last persons in England to be convicted and jailed for blasphemy. He coined the term "secularism" while being an editor for the secularist newspaper "The Reasoner". (Summary by Ava)
章节 (23)
1Open Thought the First Step to Intelligence
2The Question Stated
3The First Stage of Free Thought: Its Nature and Limitation
4The Second Stage of Free Thought: Enterprise
5Conquests of Investigation
6Stationariness of Criticism
7Third Stage of Free Thought: Secularism
8Three Principles Vindicated
9How Secularism Arose
10How Secularism Was Diffused
11Secular Instruction Distinct From Secularism
12The Distinctiveness Made Further Evident
13Self-Defensive For The People
14Rejected Tenets Replaced By Better
15Morality Independent of Theology
16Ethical Certitude
17The Ethical Method of Controversy
18Its Discrimination
19Apart From Christianism
20Secularism Creates a New Responsibility
21Through Opposition To Recognition
22Self-Extending Principles
23Secularist Ceremonies
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