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The term '''secular''' is generally used to mean "worldly, as differentiated from ecclesiastical." The term has changed meaning dramatically over time. Its original definition preserved its Latin meaning - "of an age" - as evinced in the [[Secular Games]], or the [[Carmen Secularae]] ("Song of the Augustan Age" by Horace.
The term '''secular''' is generally used to mean "worldly, as differentiated from ecclesiastical." The term has changed meaning dramatically over time. Its original definition preserved its Latin meaning - "of an age" - as evinced in the [[Secular Games]], or the [[Carmen Secularae]] ("Song of the Augustan Age") by Horace.
The term is misused by [[atheists]] who do not want to admit how they impose their belief system in public institutions. Secular really means including religion, but the distortion of the term gives it a connotation of exclusion of religion, as in "utterly worldly, bereft of God."
[[Category:Religious terms]]
[[Category:Religious terms]]