Quotes About Secularism

Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

Freedom requires religion like a slug requires salt

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

I'm an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.

Religion in the public square is becoming an endangered species.

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

I don't approve of religion.

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.

Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.

Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.

The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

I'm an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women's rights.

Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.