The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also important in setting the only possible legal and social condition for the creative health of serious religion… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at best or outright antipathy at worst. — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also important… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare. — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality. — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
