I don't think you can easily differentiate between "secular" and "religious" motivations or justifications. This distinction is one made by areligious people. For a religious believer, there is no difference, because for the religious believer Christ or Mohammed or Zeus or whatever is a real entity, as concrete as rocks or other people or iPods. I imagine it would be pretty hard to untangle ML King's or Ghandi's or Simone Weil's or Bin Laden's or whoever's "secular" motivations from his/her "religious" ones.
--- On Thu, 12/4/08, Matt <lbo4 at beyondzero.net> wrote:
>
> I suppose to clarify, I see a distinction between using the
> existing
> religious community to form a secular movement, as opposed
> to the
> movement being religious.