* " Growing Up Godless: How I Survived Amateur Secular Parenting ," by Emily Rosa, in Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion, Dale McGowan, ed., AMACOM, 2007.

The Opposition parties ( including the Congress, the Left Front, Janata Dal ( Secular ), and various regional parties ) supported a second term for him, and Sonia Gandhi met him to request his candidature ; Vajpayee then met Narayanan, informed him that there was no consensus within the NDA on the question, and advised against his candidature.

In 2012, he won the Irwin Prize ( which is awarded to the " Secularist of the Year " by the National Secular Society ) in recognition of his lifelong commitment to the defence of human rights against religious fundamentalism.

Leaders of major religions and race groups as well as non-religious groups such as the National Secular Society and English PEN spoke out in order to campaign against the Bill.

" Leaders of major religions and race groups, as well as non-religious groups such as the National Secular Society and English PEN spoke out against the Bill.

The youth wings of the JD splinter groups have similar names such as Yuva Janata Dal ( Secular ), Yuva Janata Dal ( United ), Yuva Rashtriya Janata Dal, etc.

Sacrifices and prayers on the Palatine to Apollo and Diana formed the culmination of the Secular Games, held in 17 BCE to celebrate the dawn of a new era.

Others, such as the traditional Republican Secular Games to mark a new era ( saeculum ), became imperially funded to maintain traditional values and a common Roman identity.

Later that year at the Secular Games, at the performance of the Troy Pageant, Messalina attended the event with her son Britannicus.

Secular and spiritual authority were not distinct categories for Alfred.

Confucius: The Secular as Sacred ISBN 1-57766-010-2.

Claudius performed the Secular Games, marking the 800th anniversary of the founding of Rome.

See Secular Christmas stories, Christmas in the media and Christmas in literature.

Secular and unaffiliated ethnic Jews in Denmark number several thousand.

Charles Taylor, in his 2007 book A Secular Age, showed the historical role of deism, leading to what he calls an exclusive humanism.

Dennett is a firm atheist and secularist, a member of the Secular Coalition for America advisory board, as well as an outspoken supporter of the Brights movement.

*< cite id = refHSJ1939 > H Spencer Jones, " The Rotation of the Earth, and the Secular Accelerations of the Sun, Moon and Planets ", in Monthly Notes of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 99 ( 1939 ), pp 541 – 558 .</ cite >

Secular perennialists espouse the idea that education should focus on the historical development of a continually developing common western base of human knowledge and art, the timeless value of classic thought on central human issues by landmark thinkers, and revolutionary ideas critical to historical western paradigm shifts or changes in world view.

Secular perennialists agree with progressivists that memorization of vast amounts of factual information and a focus on second-hand information in textbooks and lectures does not develop rational thought.

* Wouter J. Hanegraaff, “ The Study of Western Esotericism: New Approaches to Christian and Secular Culture ”, in Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz and Randi R. Warne, New Approaches to the Study of Religion, vol.

Secular or atheist feminists have engaged in feminist criticism of religion, arguing that many religions have oppressive rules towards women and misogynistic themes and elements in religious texts.

Communal Utopias and the American Experience: Secular Communities, 1824 – 2000.

Foot was an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society and a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association.

Secular motets continued to be written however.

Secular History and Loss of Meaning ", retrieved at December 2, 2009.

Secular music absorbed techniques from sacred music, and vice versa.

Secular music included songs for one or many voices, forms such as the frottola, chanson and madrigal.

Secular music was music that was independent of churches.

They include instructions to worship only God and to keep the Sabbath, and prohibitions against idolatry, blasphemy, murder, theft, and adultery.

Spin-offs include a script-book The Life of Brian of Nazareth, which is backed by MONTYPYTHONSCRAPBOOK ... ( The printing of this book also caused problems, since there are rarely used technical laws in the UK against " blasphemy " dictating what can and cannot be written about religion – the publisher refused to print both halves of the book, and original prints were by two companies ).

Some retain laws forbidding all forms of blasphemy ( e. g., Germany where, in 2006, Manfred van H. was convicted of blasphemy against Islam ).

In Pakistan blasphemy directed against either the tenets of the Qur ' an or the Prophet Mohammed is punishable by either life imprisonment or death.

Numbers and Numerals ); some textual changes to guard against blasphemy and the like ( though these changes may pre-date the Masoretes-see Tikkune Soferim ); the enumeration of letters, words, verses, etc., and the substitution of some words for others in public reading.

* Thomas Aquinas says that “ it is clear that blasphemy, which is a sin committed directly against God, is more grave than murder, which is a sin against one's neighbor.

Sir Francis Bacon uses " blasphemy " in this way in Advancement of Learning, where he speaks of " blasphemy against teaching ".

He and his organisation have publicly spoken out against what he views to be blasphemy in popular culture, including criticism of the stage productions Jesus Christ Superstar and Jerry Springer: The Opera, as well as being strongly pro-life.

In 1928 a case was even brought against him for blasphemy because of his poem Gesang der englischen Chorknaben (" The song of English choirboys ")

The literary role of artificial life has evolved over time: early myths present animated objects as instruments of divine will, later stories treat their attempted creation as a blasphemy with inevitable consequences, and modern tales range from apocalyptic warnings against blind technological progress to explorations of the ethical questions raised by the possibility of sentient machines.

The Duncans represent the old Atreides loyalty, along with everything vital in humanity, so something in the Duncans always rebels against the holy blasphemy Leto has created ; many Duncans die trying to kill Leto.

A private court case brought by Christian Voice against Lee and others involved with the production for blasphemy was rejected by a Magistrates ' Court.

Babylonian law put a limit on such actions, restricting the retribution to be no worse than the crime, as long as victim and offender occupied the same status in society, while punishments were less proportional with disputes between social strata: like blasphemy or laesa maiestatis ( against a god, viz., monarch, even today in certain societies ), crimes against one's social better were systematically punished as worse.

Some passages in Shelley's Queen Mab resulted in a charge of blasphemy being made against Moxon in 1841.

In, Jesus defends himself against a charge of blasphemy by stating: " Have I not said that ye are gods?

* In, Jesus defends himself against a charge of blasphemy by stating: " Have I not said that ye are gods?

Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti, was assassinated on 2 March 2011 for his lifelong stand against the laws and Governor of Punjab, Salmaan Taseer, was killed by his own bodyguard on 4 January 2011, for standing up for a blasphemy defendant.

This would also include worshiping other gods, not respecting the Sabbath, covetous behaviour ; and the Catechism quotes the Biblical prohibition against blasphemy.

They then erected outside the city gates a pile of fagots and threatened to burn her alive if she refused to repeat after them impious words ( either a blasphemy against Christ, or an invocation of the heathen gods ).

# That to deny that he was divine was blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, worthy of everlasting death ;