Part 1 - Pathways

A-Seeker

Table of Contents

B-Seer

Table of Contents

C-Belover

Table of Contents

Part 2 - Resources

Table of Contents

Pathway B—Seer
Table of Contents

PART III

SECULARISM BIG STORY
Secularism's Big Answers
Secularism’s roots

Two camps: Sacred and Non-Sacred Secularism
Ike—Secularism prophet

Sacred Secularism

“America” creatively imagined as a "Civil Religion"

"America's" Dark Story of Origin—three themes

1) The formation of the penitentiary prison system
The Pennsylvania Prison Society (PPS)
Theory and practice of "separate confinement with mild punishments"
The penitentiary and the Intimate Enemy

2) The native first people of the Americas—“dreadful fear”
Three historical interpretations
Catholic
Academic
Radical activist
Indian Removal movement
Trail of Tears

3) African slavery—obliteration of the feminine and/or the Goddess
Slavery and sex
Bible and slavery

Thomas Jefferson's "slavery deleted" Declaration of Independence
"Tom and Sally"—Jefferson and Hemings

Summary of the Dark Story's three themes

Continue—Non-Sacred Secularism