Quotes About Secularism

A religious commitment coupled with theological awareness gives Jews a much better way to answer the claims made upon us by missionaries representing other religions than do the rather weak political and cultural arguments of the secularists.

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we are forward-looking and refuse to be pulled back by social constructs such as religion.

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.

We are not wedded to anyone in Syria. We are not concerned with any personality. We are concerned with keeping Syria in one piece, territorially integral, sovereign, independent and secular, where the rights of all groups, ethnic and others, are fully respected.

Australia is not a secular country. It is a free country. This is a nation where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose.

The fact remains that secularism is inherent in the Indian system, in the Indian ethos and culture. India cannot but be secular.

governments and their official representatives will be strictly neutral on matters of religion: not hostile, not promotional, simply neutral.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries.

For many secular people today we live in a disenchanted universe without meaning, purpose, or direction. We are aware only of what it is not. Seldom do we enjoy what it is. Probably it is only healthy religion that is prepared to answer that question. Healthy religion is an enthusiasm about what is, not an anger about what isn't.

At that level, organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive amounts of atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries (and in those who just keep up the external trappings of Christianity).

The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.

We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, now we're having weekly shootings practically.

Two centuries later, the Enlightenment transmuted Christian linearism into a complementary secular faith, what historian Carl Becker called "the heavenly city of the eighteenth-century philosophers"—the belief in indefinite scientific, economic, and political improvement.

Deizmin kutsal? ak?l, bilim ve ahlakt?r.

Deizm, laikli?in bir tür felsefesidir.

Nationwide, any child can pray to any god they wish at any time, so why do we need organized prayers in schools? To pressure those who don't want to pray into doing so, and for no other reason.

Fighting God is fighting a war for freedom of thought, which is the most important freedom we have.

A great irony is that the quest for secular immortality is being funded by foundations and individuals who seem to hate life

whatever happens in Pakistan, quite clearly our task in India is clear; we must pursue with even greater determination than in the past our efforts at forming a secular State in which men of all communities can walk with their heads high.

Ignored are the secular regimes and processes that have historically been evident in many Muslim-majority countries such as Egypt, Turkey, Morocco, and Tunisia, as well as the secularism evident in second- and third-generation migrants from these countries.