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“I call them (international school clerics) international humanists. The survival of the world is dependent on such decent people. In Turkey, it was with faith that we helped stop the spread of communism. In Afghanistan, it was the believers who stopped the Soviets. Anyway, supporting those schools is good for business.”

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Author:Mustafa Barutçuoğlu

“The medieval period based its scriptural exegesis upon the Vulgate translation of the Bible. There was no authorized version of this text, despite the clear need for a standardized text that had been carefully checked against its Hebrew and Greek originals. A number of versions of the text were in circulation, their divergences generally being overlooked. It was not until 1592 than an 'official' version of the text was produced by the church authorities, sensitive to the challenges to the authority of the Vulgate by Renaissance humanist scholars and Protestant theologians.”

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Book:The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation

Source: The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation

“John Hodgson can describe Richard Dawkins's atheism as vacuous only because 'atheist' is a term which non-believers use purely as a polemical convenience when we have to define concisely what we don't believe [...]. No atheist is principally that. What we'd want to call ourselves is humanist or materialist, or biologist or linguist, or for that matter socialist, because one or more of these, or something else again, is what we do and think and are. We have 'purely and simply finished with God', to adapt a phrase of Engels's.”

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Author:David Craig

“I am the world and the world is me.”

Words Of Wisdom Brainy Quotes Humanism Humanitarian Humanitarianism Nondual Philosophy Humanitarians Humanists

Book:Conscience over Nonsense

Source: Conscience over Nonsense

“Everything else is expendable, but not humanhood. Every scripture, every god, every angel, every messiah, every church, every temple, every mosque, every doctrine – everything is expendable, not the innate humanhood that Mother Nature has bestowed on you through the process of natural selection.”

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Book:Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human

Source: Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human

“They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater religion, than the love of humanity.”

“The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, inspired me to a great extent in my work “Principia Humanitas”.”

Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“The human heart is first a human heart, then everything else - American, Christian, Asian, Jew, or whatever.”

Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“There is only one label worth fighting for, nay, not fighting for, that is “human”.”

Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism

“Self is All. (First Principle of Humanism)”

Source: Principia Humanitas

“Scholars have argued that without humanism the Reformation could not have succeeded, and it is certainly difficult to imagine the Reformation occurring without the knowledge of languages, the critical handling of sources, the satirical attacks on clerics and scholastics, and the new national feeling that a generation of humanists provided. On the other hand, the long-term success of the humanists owed something to the Reformation. In Protestant schools and universities classical culture found a permanent home. The humanist curriculum, with its stress on languages and history, became a lasting model for the arts curriculum.”

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Book:The Age of Reform 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe

Source: The Age of Reform 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe