Secularism must be applied everywhere, because that is how everyone will be able to live in peace with each other.
Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family.
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.
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!
Secularism is a term interpreted in many different ways by different people. For me, it has always been something very simple - putting India First
Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.
Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.
My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution.
The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you
The rise of secularism has brought about an increase in hostility toward things religious.
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.
Secularism and Religion are both all about your personal performance. The Gospel is the performance of another applied to you.
Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.
Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . We need believing people.
Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.
Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality.
Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.
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