American culture Quote by Edward Hirsch

An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability.

— Joan D. Chittister

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

— Stanley Hauerwas

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

All religious and cultural values are not equal to one another.

— Gad Saad

“People say that America has no religion, but it's the opposite: America has every religion, all the old ones, and produces more new ones…

— Michael Muhammad Knight

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

— Thomas Jefferson

The settled opinion here is that religion is essentially distinct from Civil Govt. and exempt from its cognizance; that a connection between them is…

— James Madison

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

— Pope Francis

Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive…

— Richard Dawkins

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just…

— John Locke

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

— Lori Lipman Brown

Culture is religion incarnate.

— Charles Colson