The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose… — John Green Copy Share Image
When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular… — Shahin Najafi Copy Share Image
The American intelligentsia has been pretty secular for a long time. There have always been figures like Oprah Winfrey, let's put it… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“The secular, for all its goodness, does not defend itself very well against mindless and perpetual consumption. It cries out to be… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
As a young adult, I began to read widely in history, philosophy, and religion - including the Bible. I began to feel… — Mike Berenstain Copy Share Image
Now the good of political life is a great political good. It is not a secular good specified by a comprehensive doctrine… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Many books condemn 'secular' culture, just as many books advocate (consciously or unconsciously) accommodating ourselves to culture. Brett has written something much… — Mike Erre Copy Share Image
Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Canon law pertains to Catholics. Jewish law pertains only to Jews. But the sharia dictates every basic aspect of human life, asserts… — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
“What I find most mystifying in the arguments of the authors I have mentioned, and of others like them, is the strange… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
I believe Tunisia and Egypt should look to Turkey and see what not to do. Turkey seems to be a secular and… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
You've got a generation of young men - almost all are young men - in situations of great economic hardship, where they… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“when the great intolerance of faith was lost, the secular robe of office had to supplant the sacred one, and society had… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack… — Gerald Nicosia Copy Share Image
For someone whose roots in America were strong but only inches deep, and who had no experience, such as a Catholic child… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional Talmud and Bible… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions -… — Madeleine Bunting Copy Share Image
More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The BJP brand of Hindutva was originally rooted in middle-class disenchantment with secular hypocrisies; Modi's version is defined simply by hard-edged hatred. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
She [Hillary Clinton] is the epitome of the progressive - the secular progressive movement. And she counts on the fact that people… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith. — Don Feder Copy Share Image
Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all? — William Bennett Copy Share Image
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image