American culture Quote by Harvey Cox

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and…

— Paul Kurtz

In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious formulation. Religious…

— Paul Kurtz

Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality.

— Carl F. H. Henry

Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife, sacred dogma…

— Paul Kurtz

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

— Guenter Lewy

Secular humanism debases the human.

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

“It is not just that secularists happen to reject and oppose religion; it's that there is nothing more to their creed than rejecting and…

— Edward Feser

Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is…

— Harvey Cox

Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

— Dalai Lama

Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human…

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be cultivated. Humanism…

— Karen Armstrong

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

— Vidal Sassoon