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One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism

The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others.

More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.

The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious.

My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to slaughter.

And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt

I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks secular liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name of the secular nation, or of democracy, does not?

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

For Pakistan, Kashmir represents the infeasibility of secular nationalism and underscores the need for an Islamic theocracy in the subcontinent.

I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.

No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.

Secular humanism debases the human.

Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't mean we need to try to have freedom from religion

Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.

We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.

A big secular thing going on is technology and deflation. This is where I think millennials are getting that it is an improvement in life, and they're taking advantage of it.

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.

Evil is international and the fanatic is international and universal. There is no difference between a Muslim fanatic, a Christian fanatic, even a secular fanatic.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

Sons or fathers, poor men or rich men, sacred or secular: all are homosexual in their worship of everything phallic.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America.

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

For India, Kashmir lends credibility to its secular nationalist image.

I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role.

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

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.