We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
“...The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless. [ From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist' ]” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Crucially, Marxist atheism is only achieved once the theological critique of capitalism is completed. This is what separates Marxist atheism from the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“...organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Better for them to deny the mind--and with it rationality, truth, and science itself--than to admit the soul. Once again, the secularist… — Edward Feser Copy Share Image
There is no way to have a real relationship without becoming vulnerable to hurt. Christmas tells us that God became breakable and… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“This is not a book of truth, but simply a book that attempts with as little bias as humanly possible, to understand… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Anyone leaving the Congress' camp and joining - or even indirectly praising - the BJP-led NDA coalition immediately stands the risk of… — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I think many thinkers and activists, even in the Islamist parties like the Muslim Brotherhood, and the people who left the Muslim… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Naskar, The Origin Story (Sonnet 1999) Naren, Subhas, Abhijit, three vessels, one spirit. All three spring from paramhansa, in paramhansa we three… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“We hear our legislators proclaim unceasingly their respect for the individual conscience, though it be a religious conscience, and themselves anticlericals. All… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of comprehensive doctrines, religious and secular. Those of religious faith will say I give a veiled argument for… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
“Books are supposed to give a helping hand to humanity’s progress, not to instruct humanity how to progress. Plato wrote his books… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Admittedly, I do have several bones... whole war fields full of bones, in fact... to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Post 'Ek Tha Tiger,' which was a more mainstream, action film, I spent a lot of time with Salman and I realised… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“The secularizing 'values' and events that have been predicted would happen in the Muslim world have now begun to unfold with increasing… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
Ironically, as some people become harder, they use softer words to describe dark deeds. This, too, is part of being sedated by… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.… — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Copy Share Image
Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong . . . . The answer to bad religion… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
“Secular humanists of every type may ridicule the Bible, but they cannot escape it; and in their obsession with change, calls for… — Gene Edward Veith Jr Copy Share Image
Secularism and pluralism are two of the defining ethos of Western societies. The former decouples religion from governmental institutions whilst the latter… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Secularization—that is, the gradual conformity of our thinking, beliefs, commitments, and practices to the pattern of this fading age—is not just something… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“Rationalism is imperative in the pursuit of truth, whereas the pursuit of a harmonious global progress demands a human to be simply… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they… — Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Copy Share Image
“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“From the Renaissance until today, Christianity, and also to some extent Judaism, in the West have had to carry out a constant… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image