Definitions and explanations of key terms used throughout the site.
The supposed separation of religion from civic or governmental institutions.
The study of cosmology shows how our relationship to the universe and our fellow humans is inextricably conditioned by our underlying belief systems and mythologies. As every thoughtful person realizes, the life of each civilization-and every individual-is influenced by underlying...
Source: Jesus Christ, Sun of God by David Fideler
The new reality they sought was radically secular and stridently simple. The ideal was not the balanced complexity of the new American federation, but the occult simplicity of its great seal: an all-seeing eye atop a pyramid over the words...
Source: Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington
Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were the Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from the forcible overthrow of traditional authority.
Source: Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington
Cause It’s the World I Know
We accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented. It’s as simple as that.
High Time We Made a Stand
Read it in the books, in the crannies and the nooks, there are books to read.