Why do public schools, which are secular, emphasize values such as civic responsibility, trustworthiness, fairness, and respect, which religious teachings also emphasize?
O Public schools are secular in some ways, but not when it comes to their values.
O The schools have appropriated these values without giving religion credit for them.
The terms "secular" and "religious" are nearly synonyms
These values are secular as well; religious and secular value frameworks share some important commonalities.

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive