Secularism Vocab

biased, selective, misleading, and/or manipulating information circulated with the goal of changing opinions and influencing action toward a particular position or cause.

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• Psychology

• Propaganda

• Power

A religious and philosophical worldview that makes humankind the ultimate norm by which truth and values are to be determined; a worldview that reveres human reason, evolution, naturalism, and the secular theories of ethics whie rejecting every form of supernatural religion.

• Scientific Method

• Self- actualization

• Scientism

• Secular Humanism

A humanistic movement that hopes to advance humanity beyond its physical and mental limitations through the application and integration of biotechnology.

• Biologic determinism

• Transhumanism

• Behaviorism

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The belief that reality is composed solely of matter.

• Materialism

• Macroevolution

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• Monism

The belief that all phenomena can be explained in terms of natural causes

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• Natural Law

• Naturalism

• Natural Selection

A system of belief that attempts to define the nature of God and how human beings can understand and interact with the divine; any system of belief that prescribes certain responses to the existence (or nonexistence) of the divine

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• Pantheism

• Religion

• Religious Pluralism

The belief that reality is ultimately composed of one essential substance

• Monomyth

• Monotheism

• Monotonous

• Monism

an atheistic and materialistic worldview that advocates a public society free from the influence of religion.

• Secularism

• Self-actualization

• Self-law

• Scientism

a pattern of ideas, beliefs, convictions, and habits that help us make sense of God, the world, and our relationship to God and the world.

• Visualization

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• Worldview

• Preferences