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v. - Draw away from a religious orientation.

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  • The whole purpose of the second Vatican council was to "secularise" Christianity; to make it less confrontational with other faiths.
  • But anyone dread Socialism because it will secularise education?
  • A great place to start would be to secularise our political landscape - that would be a step in the right direction.
  • Or will we, as Ken MacLeod posits in The Night Sessions, go to war and in the aftermath completely secularise society?
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