Civil Quote by Stanley Hauerwas

Religion is about creation, and for that reason religion should be about the earth.

— Laurie Cabot

The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God…

— Jonathan Haidt

Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.

— Edward Hirsch

“When one speaks of religion influencing public policy, the immediate question is, Whose religion? If one subscribes to the notion that this is in…

— Richard John Neuhaus

Some Christians worried about a faith that was so embracing as to be meaningless, that exalted not the Almighty so much as the American…

— Anonymous

“Perhaps the best way to understand the book of Revelation is that it is a prophetic critique of civil religion. By civil religion I…

— Brian Zahnd

“The radically countercultural and revolutionary movement that Jesus birthed has, in our country (as in every other “Christian” country), been largely reduced to little…

— Gregory A. Boyd

The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from the elements…

— Simon Critchley

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

— Christopher Morley

“By all means let us agree that we are pattern-seeking mammals and that, owing to our restless intelligence and inquisitiveness, we will still prefer…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have…

— Sigmund Freud

In the US, what passes for Christianity - and it is, to say the least, a highly perverse, possessive individualist and capitalist version of…

— Simon Critchley