“Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.” I CanGodHomeRememberBeliefAwarenessRaisedSecular Author:M. Scott Peck
“Absolutists frighten me. During all the endless discussions on my blog about evolution, intelligent design, God, and the afterworld, numbering altogether thousands of comments, I have never named my beliefs, although readers have freely informed me that I am an atheist, and agnostic, or at the very least a secular humanist - which I am.” BeliefDesignEvolutionReaderIntelligentAtheistEndlessDiscussionHumanistCommentSecularAgnosticBlogsIntelligent Design Author:Roger Ebert
“God, once imagined to be an omnipresent force throughout the whole world of nature and man. has been increasingly tending to seem omniabsent. Everywhere, intelligent and educated people rely more and more on purely secular and scientific techniques for the solution of their problems. As science advances, belief in divine miracles and the efficacy of prayer becomes fainter and fainter.” PeopleMenWorldHas BeensWholeProblemSeemsBeliefForcePrayerAtheismDivineSolutionsMiracleIntelligentPositive AtheismTechniqueWhole WorldEducatedRelySecularEfficacyMan And Nature Author:Corliss Lamont
“You learn in America to speak two ways. You learn in public discourse not to be very specific about your religious life. Or, if we talk about it, we'll find a secular way of doing it that will not be offensive to people of non-belief. So, that you go through life with these alternate voices.” PeopleIfsWayTwoAmericaBeliefSpeakVoiceReligiousSecularOffensiveDiscourseTwo WaysReligious LifePublic Discourse Author:Richard Rodriguez
“With our goddess, the Pachamama, and it is not possible to continue having a monopoly of religious faith, only Catholic. We have therefore adopted the new constitution as a secular state where all religious beliefs will be respected.” StatesBeliefReligiousConstitutionCatholicGoddessSecularAdoptedMonopolyReligious FaithReligious Belief Author:Evo Morales
“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.” PeopleMenHumansMayIdeasSpiritualFormBeliefAbilityCenturyPrideWorshipConcernHistoricalHumanismSuperiorsRejectsSecularTwentieth CenturyVaryGlorifyBelief In GodSecular Humanism Author:David Fisher
“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.” DoeBeliefWishViewsMoralEssentialsDrawsPhilosophicalMethodSacredHumanismPoint Of ViewEthicalAttributesAfterlifeCreedsDogmaSecularDeitiesScientific MethodSecular Humanism Author:Paul Kurtz