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kentauros

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3. I guess I should have highlighted within my quote, too.
Sat Oct 25, 2014, 04:28 PM
Oct 2014
As a result, a churchless or secular worldview

Now look at the emboldened part of the definition for 'secular':
1. denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.

"Churchless" is not "secular" by the definition of 'secular' and 'churchless'. Thus my contention that people stop misusing them as the same. They are not. Words have meanings, not just whatever people think they should have based on their own worldview.

And just so I'm absolutely clear, here's the dictionary.com definition of "churchless":

churchless
adjective
1. without a church.
2. not belonging to or attending any church.
3. without church approval or ceremony.

Now, where exactly, does that seem even remotely like 'secular'?

So again, people are using the words wrong, and thus, projecting the wrong message to millions either unable or unwilling to notice the big difference.

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