English Secularism
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- Author's Preface and Publisher's Preface
- Open Thought the First Step to Intelligence
- The Question Stated
- The First Stage of Free Thought: Its Nature and Limitation
- The Second Stage of Free Thought: Enterprise
- Conquests of Investigation
- Stationariness of Criticism
- Third Stage of Free Thought: Secularism
- Three Principles Vindicated
- How Secularism Arose
- How Secularism Was Diffused
- Secular Instruction Distinct From Secularism
- The Distinctiveness Made Further Evident
- Self-Defensive For The People
- Rejected Tenets Replaced By Better
- Morality Independent of Theology
- Ethical Certitude
- The Ethical Method of Controversy
- Its Discrimination
- Apart From Christianism
- Secularism Creates a New Responsibility
- Through Opposition To Recognition
- Self-Extending Principles
- Secularist Ceremonies
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)
"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)
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