Quotes About Secularism

I am an atheist, thank God!

No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld.

But secularists are not value free; their values are simply grounded in earthly concerns rather than in anticipation of heavenly rewards or fear of infernal punishments.

In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the Bible are scientifically impossible.

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

What I am is a proud humanist. Atheism says what I don't accept, humanism says what I do." - Nathan Phelps

Now the battle against communism has been reconfigured. The seat of Satan is no longer in the Kremlin. It has been assumed by individuals and institutions promoting a rival religion called "secular humanism.

The attacks by this movement on the rights and beliefs of Muslims, Jews, immigrants, gays, lesbians, women, scholars, scientists, those they dismiss as nominal Christians, and those they brand with the curse of secular humanist, are an attack on all of us, on our values, our freedoms and ultimately our democracy. Tolerance is a virtue, but tolerance coupled with passivity is a vice.

I'm Miss USA, not Miss Religion USA.

Congress started mixing politics with religion. BJP perfected it.

I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.

I am not convinced that the U.S. is more religious than Britain. Even if more people go to church in America, I think the U.S. is a much more secular country than Britain.

In a secular democracy, a person is supposed to be punished only when he breaks the law; never because he is evil. That is, after all, what distinguishes a democracy from a theocracy.

T?bbîleÅŸtirme sekülerleÅŸtirmenin bir yan?d?r, terapötik devlet (t?p ile devletin ittifak?) teolojik devletin (kilise ile devletin ittifak?) yerini al?r. Geleneksel olarak, günah diye s?n?fland?r?lan belli davran??lar hastal?k ÅŸeklinde yeniden tan?mlan?r, böylece bunlar?n zor yoluyla "tedavi"leri gerekçe bulur.

But the most insidious and dangerous of false religions is secular humanism. It's so crafty, so sneaky, with its kindness and its decency, that only Satan hisself could've come up with it.

If scientific language is about longer individual life in exchange for an ethical one; if political agenda is the xenophobic protection of a few of our families against the catastrophic others; if religious language is discredited as contempt for the nonreligious; if secular language bridles in fear of the sacred; if market language is merely an excuse for inciting greed; if the future of knowledge is not wisdom but "upgrade," where might we look for humanity's own future?

in an Apparently Godless Era.

Marxismus je sekulární náboženství – to je evidentní. Ale které náboženství vlastnÄ› následuje, není vždycky zÃ…â"¢ejmé. Zahrnuje v sobÄ› velkou ?ást tradi?ní kÃ…â"¢esÃ…Â¥anské eschatologie: pád ?lovÄ›ka, MesiáÅ¡e, jeho utrpení, zástupné vykoupení lidstva, spásu, zmrtvýchvstání a tak dál.

Da wir heute jedoch in einer zunehmend säkularisierten Gesellschaft leben und das virtuelle Universum sich immer weiter ausdehnt, haben wir es mit einer völlig anderen Spezies zu tun: mit Popstars und Schauspielern sowie Medien- und Videospielmonguln, die statt Würde auszustrahlen, diese nun auf dem Altar der kreativen Schizophrenie opfern.

lead, adding the phrase "under God" to the previously secular Pledge of Allegiance. A similar phrase, "In God We Trust," was added to a postage stamp for the first time in 1954 and then to paper money the next year; in 1956, it became the nation's first official motto. During the Eisenhower

The need of our times is to revive the Nehruvian notion of secularism.

In Nehruvian 'secularism', superficiality of thought is compensated for by thoroughness in dishonesty.

Kita memasuki abad ideologi yang berakar pada keimanan, yang berseberangan dengan kebudayaan ilmiah yang dialogis dan rasional," kata Kauffmann. Di tengah dua arus yang menguat ini, mereka yang berpaham moderat didorong untuk berpihak ke salah satu kubu. "Moderate faith is being squeezed by both secularism and fundamentalism," tulisnya.

There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet.