Quotes About Secularism

You shall have to be able to oppose communalism, only then can you say you are secular. Many political parties which claim to be secular show their weakness when it comes to the fight against communalism.

My concern is to keep religion and the state separated. I don't think that religion and politics go together. When you see political decisions colored by religion, decisions that affect us all... I thought: 'I do not want to go back to medieval times.'

My aim has always been to defend the secular foundation of our nation and the poor of our country - the creed sacred to Indiraji and Rajivji.

We have a diverse population and have to maintain that and keep religion away from politics.

My father's mother was a secular Jew who died in Auschwitz. I only found out as an adult because my father never talked about it. He was a secularist and never defined himself in ethnic terms - partly, I think, because he was scared; partly out of the habit of not talking of such things; partly because he didn't like being defined by other people.

The Christian community must live out it's calling in the conscious recognition that secularism is false.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

If Christianity is to be discounted as wishful thinking because it removes fear of meaninglessness and annihilation, then secularism should be open to the same charge, since it removes the hated ideas of an absolute superior and of real responsibility.

If rationalism and secularism have taken us so far that we can no longer imagine what Phidippides saw, then we are incapable of understanding—and consequently defending ourselves against—religious movements that reverse the Enlightenment and affect today's geopolitics.

Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics....Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.

My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution.

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.

Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don't really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.