Top Secularism Quotes

The world is getting too small for both an Us and a Them. Us and Them have become codependent, intertwined, fixed to one another. We have no separate fates, but are bound together in one. And our fear...

No man is such a legalist as the good Secularist.

Secularism Definition

(n.) The state or quality of being secular; a secular spirit; secularity.

(n.) The tenets or principles of the secularists.

When all seems hopeless, cross your fingers and stick with the secular prayer.

Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They more or less inherit them. Against this unearned patrimony there have always...

The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.

A smart person speaks out the truth. A wise person doesn't care about speaking it out, as much as he or she cares about utilizing that truth in the society, in a way that brings most progress, in a wa...

We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the v...

It is a profound political reality that Christ now occupies the supreme seat of cosmic authority. The kings of this world and all secular governments may ignore this reality, but they cannot undo it....

Ironically, (the church's) respect in the world declines in proportion to how vigorously we attempt to force others to adopt our point of view.

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

Terrorism has no religion, but secularism has one and only one.

...The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite poin

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

Conservatives and those on the right are usually willing to settle for thinking themselves correct on political issues; those on the left have always needed to feel not so much that they are correct b...

I appreciate life so much after I see people die. It is always just such a reminder that every moment -- this is all we have. This is it. I don't know if there is anything before or after, but this is...

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so...

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.