Secular Humanism Quotes

• 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

  Peter L. Berger

  Christian, Movement, Reacting

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• 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.

  Hugo Black

  Country, Buddhism, Law

  "Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 19, 1961.

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

  Vidal Sassoon

  Views, Said, Point Of View

  "Vital Vidal". Interview with Matt Smith, archives.sfweekly.com. October 15, 1997.

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• We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the views of non-believers in an unbiased way. Secular ethics rooted in scientific findings, common experience and common sense can easily be introduced into the secular education system. If we can do that there is a real prospect of making this 21st century an era of peace and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Real, Compassion

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• Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.

  Harvey Cox

  Meaningful, Christian, Religious

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• 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.

  Paul Kurtz

  Religious, Philosophy, Atheism

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• Humanism is an overemphasis on human worth and ability, leading man to glorify himself instead of God...While its historical forms may vary, humanism inevitably leads people away from God and spiritual concerns. It promotes the false idea that man is good and that he is superior to God. Secular Humanism of the twentieth century altogether rejects belief in God and worships man as God. The pride of humanism will not go unpunished.

  David Fisher

  Spiritual, Pride, Men

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• In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.

  Anne Rice

  Christian, Gay, Names

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Jul 28, 2010

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• Secular humanism debases the human.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Secular, Humans, Humanism

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

  Guenter Lewy

  Christian, Religious, Literature

  Guenter Lewy (1996). “Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents”, p.36, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.

  Dennis Prager

  Religious, Ethnicity, Wings

  "Dennis Prager: Americanism Is The Best Hope". Interview with Dave Gordon, www.breitbart.com. June 3, 2012.

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• Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Resources, Great Spiritual

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If we look at it more from a philosophical standpoint, these foundations of atheism and secular humanism believe that you are your own God. That leads us to something that unfortunately has crept into many churches across America, and it is what I call the Social Gospel. The social gospel, that could creep into something that is called Liberation Theology, which is a mixture of leftist, pseudo-Christianity with Marxism.

  Ted Cruz

  Believe, Philosophical, America

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2) the Christianity of accommodation to modernism, egalitarianism, niceness, naturalism, pop psychology, secular humanism, relativism, subjectivism, individualism, "Enlightenment" rationalism or postmodern irrationalism. New converts to the first Christianity are constantly amazed and scandalized by finding many of their clergy to be in love with the second and in fear of the first.

  Peter Kreeft

  Egalitarianism, Two, Psychology

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• Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife, sacred dogma or texts, or an absolutist moral creed. Instead, it expresses a philosophical and ethical point of view, and it draws upon the scientific method in formulationg its naturalistic view of the nature.

  Paul Kurtz

  Philosophical, Views, Afterlife

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• We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are and they are filled with the devil.

  Tim LaHaye

  Religious, War, People

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• Secular humanism proposes ... the complete implementation of the agenda of modernism ... what is necessary for it to occur is a ... New Enlightenment.

  Paul Kurtz

  Enlightenment, Atheism, Agendas

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• Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So, for the Christian, "secular humanism" is an oxymoron.

  Roger E. Olson

  Christian, Unique, Rights

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Faith Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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.

  Pat Buchanan

  School, America, Scary

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• Nonbelievers are protected by the religion clauses of the Constitution not because secular humanism is a religion, which it is not, but because when the government acts on the basis of religion it discriminates against those who do not "believe" in the governmentally favored manner.

  Norman Dorsen

  Believe, Government, Atheism

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• People should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion. Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Real, Home

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious formulation. Religious fundamentalists in the United States have waged a campaign against secular humanism, claiming that it is a rival "religion" and seeking to root it out from American public life. 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.

  Paul Kurtz

  Religious, Philosophy, Roots

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• In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity.

  Anne Rice

  Names, Quitting, Christianity

  "Anne Rice: ‘I Quit Being A Christian’" by Jessie Kunhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2010.

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• If you believe in what I do, which is secular humanism, I would find it extremely difficult to live with someone - not to love someone - but to live with somebody and build a life of someone who disagreed with me on something so fundamental.

  Susan Jacoby

  Believe, Fundamentals, Difficult

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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