Quotes About Secularism

It is the position of some theists that their right to freedom of religion is abridged when they are not allowed to violate the rationalists' right to freedom from religion.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is 'Justice to all. Appeasement to none.' This is our secularism.

It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to flinch when they hear such a phrase, just as they would if they heard, 'That is a Marxist child.'

The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.

Is it any great wonder', asked the writer, 'that an Indian Muslim no longer feels secure in secular India? He feels discriminated against. He feels a second-class citizen.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

Within the secular world picture, Neuromania and Darwinitis are the biggest piles of rubbish.

We are against politics of religion and caste.

A move to decide citizenship on the basis of religion amounts to rejecting the Constitution.

I think true atheism is a rare thing in human affairs: Even in the most secularized precincts of Europe, a lot of nominal nonbelievers turn out to have all sorts of supernatural and metaphysical beliefs.

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

Many religious people find it hard to imagine how, without religion, one can be good, or would even want to be good.

the higher one's intelligence or education level, the less one is likely to be religious or hold "beliefs" of any kind.

The genie of religious fanaticism is rampant in present-day America, and the Founding Fathers would have been horrified. Whether or not it is right to embrace the paradox and blame the secular constitution that they devised, the founders most certainly were secularists who believed in keeping religion out of politics, and that is enough to place them firmly on the side of those who object, for example, to ostentatious displays of the Ten Commandments in government-owned public places.

As the Nobel Prize-winning American physicist Steven Weinberg said, 'Religion is an insult to human dignity.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.

A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution.

I'm inclined to suspect (with some evidence, although it may be simplistic to draw conclusions from it) that there are very few atheists in prisons. I am not necessarily claiming that atheism increases morality, although humanism – the ethical system that often goes with atheism – probably does.

The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least.

A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution. —THOMAS JEFFERSON

Sam Harris, Dan Dennett, Christopher Hitchens

Hitler emphasized again and again his belief that Nazism was a secular ideology founded on modern science. Science, he declared, would easily destroy the last remaining vestiges of superstition. 'Put a small telescope in a village, and you destroy a world of superstitions.'24

Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their nose in.

Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous individuality.