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• v  make secular and draw away from a religious orientation
  Ataturk secularized Turkey
• v  transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control

• There was an originality to this insight; it was possible to live a meaningful life on one's own terms, to secularize spirituality.
• To secularize the Dry cause became the purpose of Allied Forces.
• And it reflected not only the depth of religious feeling that has survived a 120-year attempt to secularize Mexico, but the popular impact of the Pope's good-natured and .

• secularise
• desacralize

News & Articles

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• Atheist Billboard in Times Square Specifically Designed to Make Sarah Palin’s Head Explode
  When Sarah Palin speaks, ad nauseam, of the "war on Christmas," she's referring not only to attempts to secularize the holiday season in general, but also the creeping secularization and commercialization of Jesus's birthday itself.
  Dec. 4, 2013 - New York Magazine

Quotes

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• Jerry Farwell in Kansas City Star
  After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Falwell said: "I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians ...... all of them who have tried to secularize America, I point the finger in their...
• Anjem Choudary in 940 News
  This knighthood is just another example of Tony Blair and his government's attempts to secularize Muslims and reward apostates,said Anjem Choudray, protest organizer and an ex-head of the British wing of the banned radical group al-Muhajiroun.