Secular Quotes - Page 9

• Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Classroom, Monopoly, Worldview

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• You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Kids, Years, Two

  "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2003.

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• The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Religious, Ivf, Dna

  "Human Clones: Why Not?" by Nathan Myhrvold, www.slate.com. March 14, 1997.

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• The first thing to say is that the ordinary criminal law in this country, the Human Rights Act, the Children's Act, all of the laws of the country take precedence, but what I'm also saying is that within the context of a secular country, which Britain now kind of is, or at least a country which purports to be relatively equal between religions, there should be some scope for allowing faith communities to govern themselves - subject to it being consensual and subject to everyone's human rights being observed.

  Sadakat Kadri

  Country, Community, Human Rights

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

  Luke Ford

  Teens, Way, Attractive

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• ...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti - gay. If these people were honest, they would have to admit that the Bible is also pro - slavery and anti - women.

  John Shelby Spong

  Gay, People, Catholic

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• I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Zero, Home, Grew Up

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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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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• And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular.

  William Kristol

  Islamic, Thinking, Iraq

  "Bill Kristol's guide to falling upward" by Eric Alterman, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it's the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.

  Wole Soyinka

  Kind, Moments, Intolerance

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I've lived here [in Egypt] among Christians and Muslims, and we never had a conflict. Now you have a conflict between Christians and Muslims and Baha'is and Sunni and Shia. The Salafists are trying to abort the revolution and make it religious, though the revolution started secular.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Christian, Religious, Egypt

  Source: progressive.org

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• One of the great sadnesses of modern life, because of our disenfranchisement and disillusionment with religion, is that we don't have access to these ideas. Yoga and meditation, for me, is a way of, in this secular world, accessing very very beautiful principles that would perhaps make us happier, at a time when people feel disillusioned with the economy, concerned about the ecology, worried with politicians, and don't trust what they're being told on television.

  Russell Brand

  Beautiful, Yoga, Sadness

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• A secular approach is not a dumbing down, it's not reductively identifying Buddhism with one or two particular techniques of meditation, but it is actually a complete world view and way of life in this world.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Buddhism, Two, Views

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• As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Nature, Men, Mind

  "Hegel's Philosophy of right".

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• The America in which we grew up is vastly different from the America the secular-socialist Left want to create. And that's why saving America is the fundamental challenge of our time. The secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.

  Newt Gingrich

  America, Challenges, Germany

  "To Save America". Book by Newt Gingrich, www.today.com. May 17, 2010.

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• The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a Higher Power in human affairs. Time after time in his history, moreover, he has been saved from disaster in a manner, which cannot be described excepting as 'providential.' The author has deliberately attempted to write this book in a secular spirit; he does not think that his readers can fail to see in it, on every page, a higher immanence

  Cecil Roth

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Cecil Roth (1935). “A Bird's-eye View of Jewish History”, Cincinatti : Department of Synagogue and School Extension of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations

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• Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

  Salman Rushdie

  Love, Art, Mystical Experiences

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I kept saying to myself, this is a calling that God has given me. And so with intention I said, "Okay I'm going to write books not only for the Christian community, but also for the secular community." I found it really rewarding because the last one to use my gifts and advantages to people who look at church as not on their radar screen at all, it gives me favor with - I do a lot with Fortune 500 companies now.

  John C. Maxwell

  Christian, Book, Writing

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• The secular socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did.

  Newt Gingrich

  America, Machines, Unions

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• I believe the Bible tells a story we recognize as true. I don't just mean it tells an accurate story - though it's telling that the Bible stands tall even after more than 2,000 years of secular criticism.

  Max Lucado

  Believe, Mean, Years

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Syria, Secularism, Stills

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ancestor, Freethinker

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• Ideally, I'd like everybody to be secular.

  Richard Dawkins

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• The question of identity has separated from the issue of 'assimilation', having lost much of its drama and become, so to speak, a secular problem.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Drama, Issues, Identity

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

  Noam Chomsky

  Berlin, Red, Priesthood

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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