For democrats, it's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable:… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
The purpose prong of the Lemon test requires that a government activity have a secular purpose. That requirement is not satisfied, however,… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew… — Ann Douglas Copy Share Image
“The conception of secular state is derived from the liberal democratic tradition of west. No institution which is maintained wholly out of… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
I put all the blame legally and morally on the actions of the terrorist, but America's secular and anti-Christian environment left us… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
First of all, there's no separation of church and state in the Islamic world. They're one and the same. And so when… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
I kept saying to myself, this is a calling that God has given me. And so with intention I said, "Okay I'm… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
God, once imagined to be an omnipresent force throughout the whole world of nature and man. has been increasingly tending to seem… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
My father was from a secular Jewish family and my mother from a nominally Christian (Episcopalian) one. They were not religious as… — Mike Berenstain Copy Share Image
Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out,… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. And fate, of… — Mike Mason Copy Share Image
John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls -… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The U.S. spent billions of dollars to build a secular, professional national Iraqi army but failed because, despite all the U.S.-supplied guns,… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In the very first part of the constitution there is the article that refuses any law or any article in discrepancy with… — Yanar Mohammed Copy Share Image
The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The bloody years of war and all the atrocities in European history have taught the Europeans that secular politics free of religious… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Now a confirmed atheist, I've become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work… — Matthew Parris Copy Share Image
This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the Middle East is to enhance… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
In many parts of the Islamic world, secular forces, where they exist, tend to be so unsure of themselves, so lacking in… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Many of these failures can be laid at the feet of the awful state of American higher education, and especially the way… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
I see little difference in the attitudes of those who consider themselves Christian and those who are openly secular and agnostic. Most… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There is no society that protects freedom of religion more than secular democracies, because in societies where one religion rules, different viewpoints… — Flemming Rose Copy Share Image
Some people simply use their faith as a lexicon of behavioral reasoning; without that they would be forced to face their own… — Deborah Feldman Copy Share Image
I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My own ongoing research among secular Americans-as well as that of a handful of other social scientists who have only recently turned… — Phil Zuckerman Copy Share Image
I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time [his grandchildren… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
If you believe in what I do, which is secular humanism, I would find it extremely difficult to live with someone -… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
There's a culture war in this country. Americans in recent years, as you know, have become more secular. They don't go to… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
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