Secular Society Quotes

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

I do not know what to make of a republic of 30 million atheists.

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Christian attitudes are still important in a society even if they are no longer connected with belief.

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.

You grow up and recognize that in any educated secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognize in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.

Freedom is won by relegating religion to a purely private sphere remote from the body politic. In fact, the establishment of a free society is predicated on the idea that religion must be surgically removed from culture.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.

When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.

Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.

According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.

Public schools have become the established church of secular society

Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.

The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.

The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it is to avoid all mention of it. By this sort of logic, nudism is the best compromise among different styles of dress. The secularist version of 'pluralism' amounts to theological nudism.

There are many levels to Islamic rage. But what we're dealing with here is a view of the U.S. as a secular, sinful society that must be humbled, and this has nothing to do with any particular aspect of American policy. In my view, there can be no compromise with such a vision.

In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful to be other than themselves, to act publicly, and sometimes privately as well, as though their faith does not matter to them.

The fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people need to be aware of that.

Secularism is a term interpreted in many different ways by different people. For me, it has always been something very simple - putting India First

Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.

Even though our society is increasingly pluralistic, we must ensure an equal playing field rather than a religiously cleansed arena where people of faith are no longer welcome.

Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.

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

The current version of... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.