The First Estate was the clergy.

The clergy intended to teach against immorality.

All the clergy are against the new law.

The secular world is full of holes.

But, of course, our secular religion is technology.

Soon, the plays required more actors than the clergy could supply.

Think of it as a kind of secular church.

But the secular minded people can be influenced by that.

There are secular kooks there are smart kooks, dumb kooks.

And they had sympathy from some elements of the clergy and the nobility.

To all the families, first responders, to the community of Newtown, clergy, guests.

Now education is a field the secular world really believes in.

Yes, without the clergy, the plays soon started changing from their true Bible stories.

And the nobility, or the King, or the clergy, that they wouldn't have to make sacrifices.

In the beginning, the clergy members acted out Bible stories on the steps outside the cathedral.

Now art is something that in the secular world, we think very highly of.

But compassion is also equally at home in the secular as in the religious.

But obviously these other Estates, the clergy and the nobility, said no, let's each vote as Estates.

And immediately, he got into trouble with the local clergy who said, you can't make a vacuum.

What's the difference between a sermon and our modern, secular mode of delivery, the lecture?

In the secular world we think, If an idea is important, I'll bump into it.

On the one hand was my mother, a well educated, secular, modern, westernized, Turkish woman.

And they actually got some sympathy from some elements of the clergy and some elements of the nobility.

At about the same time, the clergy also developed plays about the saints of the church, called miracle plays.

The second largest group, with nearly 30 million, is the one described as non religious or secular.

This secular non religious vote, if properly mobilized, is nine times as numerous as the Jewish vote.

I would say that there are many, many gaps in secular life and these can be plugged.

Well, one thing to notice is that we do something different when talking about morality especially secular, academic, scientist types.

What's missing is that we are Homo duplex, but modern, secular society was built to satisfy our lower, profane selves.

And everybody was amazed when the refrigerator opened, and millions of young, mainly secular people stepped out to do the change.

But where, in our increasingly secular and fragmented world, do we offer communality of experience, unmediated by our own furious consumerism?

I was fully aware that for someone as secular as I am, just asking it could be seen as pure chutzpah.

I'm going to talk about compassion and the golden rule from a secular perspective and even from a kind of scientific perspective.

Turkey's effort to join the E.U., has been supported inside Turkey by the Islamic pious, while some secular nations were against that.

In the secular world, you can come through the university system and be a lousy speaker and still have a great career.

In 1950, Turkey had the first free and fair elections, which ended the more autocratic secular regime, which was the beginning of Turkey.

Another point about education we tend to believe in the modern secular world that if you tell someone something once, they'll remember it.

That Iran was once a secular society, and we had democracy, and this democracy was stolen from us by the American government, by the British government.

That is, when we get girls in school, we'll get an impact 15 to 20 years later, which is a secular trend which is very strong.

Because Egyptians are more optimistic than they have been in years, far less divided on religious secular lines than we would think and poised for the demands of democracy.

Since they had no way to learn the Bible, the clergy came up with an inventive solution they'd create plays out of certain Bible stories so even people who couldn't read could learn them.

But the pro E.U. sentiment in Turkey in the past decade has become almost an Islamic cause and supported by the Islamic liberals and the secular liberals as well, of course.

And I think the West, at least some powers in the West, particularly the United States, made the mistake of supporting those secular dictators, thinking that they were more helpful for their interests.

The people in the modern world, in the secular world, who are interested in matters of the spirit, in matters of the mind, in higher soul like concerns, tend to be isolated individuals.

And when the colonial period ended, what you had in place of that was, generally, secular dictators, which say they're a country, but did not bring democracy to the country, and established their own dictatorship.