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• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

  Jonathan Haidt

  People, Mind, Righteous

  "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion". Book by Jonathan Haidt, 2012.

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• Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for mixing religion and politics?

  Gary DeMar

  Christian, Religious, Biblical

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• Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we're seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is said to be for religious reasons but it's actually the conflation of religion and politics - every political movement has its slogans, flags and dress.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Religious, Political, Covering

  "The Interview: Ayaan Hirsi Ali on reforming Islam". Interview with Brian Bethune, www.macleans.ca. April 13, 2015.

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• politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

  Roseanne Barr

  United States, Pliers, Politics

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.

  Peter Guber

  Moving, Heart, Successful

  "Entertainment exec Peter Guber". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 15, 2011.

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• In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

  Aldous Huxley

  Illustration, Events, Postmodernism

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• In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion.

  John Dewey

  Religious, Thinking, Ideas

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.39, Indiana University Press

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• I'm not criticizing how people experience what they might call spirituality. I am interested in looking critically at something else - at how people use their language to articulate theories about something they call religion, to say, for example, that "in Islam religion and politics necessarily go together," or to insist that "violence has no place in religion," to universalize it.

  Talal Asad

  People, Islam, Together

  "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.eutopiainstitute.org. February 13, 2015.

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• I was born and grew up in the Deep South, and I must say it wasn't easy for me. I always marched to a drummer, I had different views about politics and religion and I had them relatively young.

  Steve Young

  Views, Different, Drummer

  Steve Young Interview, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it’s not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Moving, Mean

  "The Henry Rollins Show", April 13, 2007.

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• What goes on in the world and who's defining what is right or wrong in anything? Is there a place in any of our existence where we need judgment any longer? But we should have empathy towards each other and break away from those categories that politics and religion keep throwing back at us.

  John Lydon

  Should Have, Empathy, Goes On

  Source: www.axs.com

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• Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

  Christopher Lasch

  Spiritual, Religious, Separation

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• The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

  Christopher Lasch

  Wings, Right Wing, Response

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• Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

  George Iles

  Science, Errors, Upset

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• I was known to spout off about [ politics and religion] sometimes, especially in my drinkin' days! It was pretty dangerous actually.

  Steve Young

  Sometimes, Dangerous, Known

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

  William Blake

  Pride, Two, Wife

  William Blake (1964). “Jerusalem: A Simplified Version”

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• I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

  Tony Blair

  Spiritual, School, Mean

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• I try to keep my religion and politics separate. But I do prefer my stunts on Sundays. "I know you have a lot to worry about during the week, Jesus, but can you just watch over me, keep me alive, that day?"

  Steve Trotter

  Jesus, Sunday, Worry

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

  Daniel Dennett

  Thinking, Psychology, Religion

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Jonathan Meese is not interested in the history of reality. Everything radical and precisely graphic is sustainable. Human ideologies like religions and politics are based on the past and therefore irrelevant to art. Art always transforms radicalism of the past into the future. Art is always the total time machine. Jonathan Meese is interested in the history of the future. Art is never nostalgic.

  Jonathan Meese

  Art, Past, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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