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“The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society.”

“But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.”

Knows May Country Suffering Lost Religious Liberty Duty Conscience Cowardice Religious Faith

Book:The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California

Source: The Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California

“Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space , and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith . They may be right, but in any event their attitude is one which does not bear logical examination for a faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.”

May Doe Religious Space Race Attitude Events Regret Bears Truth Is Intelligent Foundation Contact Logical Suspects Examination Religious Faith Crossings Collision

Book:By Space Possessed

Source: By Space Possessed

“The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.”

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Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

“In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.”

Faith Religious Subjects Evidence Argument Conclusion Religious Faith Antithesis

Book:Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown

Source: Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown

“There are two kinds of comprehensive doctrines, religious and secular. Those of religious faith will say I give a veiled argument for secularism, and the latter will say I give a veiled argument for religion. I deny both. Each side presumes the basic ideas of constitutional democracy, so my suggestion is that we can make our political arguments in terms of public reason. Then we stand on common ground. That's how we can understand each other and cooperate.”

“The Hellenistic world was international to a degree, polyglot and inspired by many religious faiths. ...the Greek ideals were pagan and the Hellenistic age witnessed their death struggle against Asiatic and Egyptian mysteries , on the one side, and against Judaism , on the other.”

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Book:A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C

Source: A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C

“...it becomes clear that, given our diversity, no single religion satisfies all humanity. ... And since the majority does not practice religion, I am concerned to try to find a way to serve all humanity without appealing to religious faith.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students.... There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith.”

“Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.”

People Country Religious Atheism Atheist Positive Atheism Discourse Religious Faith Public Discourse

Author:Al Gore

“The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.”

Religious Loss Race Steps Atheism Positive Atheism Maturity Civilized Portions Religious Faith Childishness

Book:Letters of Charles Eliot Norton

Source: Letters of Charles Eliot Norton

“I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.”

Humor Christian Funny Belief Religious Four Wonderful Calm Admire Superstitions Assurance Religious Faith Serene Aces

Author:Mark Twain

“The separation of church and state can sometimes be frustrating for women and men of deep religious faith. They may be tempted to misuse government in order to impose a value which they cannot persuade others to accept. But once we succumb to that temptation, we step onto a slippery slope where everyone's freedom is at risk.”

“Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other systems of worship, was bloodless, boundlessly beneficent, and--most marvelous of all--went to break all bonds of body and soul, and to cast down every temporal and every spiritual tyranny.”

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Author:Alfred William Howitt

“Given the ambiguity of religious texts and teachings, the mixed historical record, and the empirical evidence, it would be foolhardy to assert that religious faith necessarily upholds democratic values.”

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Book:Religion and Politics in the United States

Source: Religion and Politics in the United States

“There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice.”

Knows Certain Religious Existence Leader Principles Influence Modern Duty Determine Noble Expected Our Time Cowardice Religious Faith Public Life Schizophrenic Modern Politics

Author:Stephen Mansfield

“In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future. From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and every rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.”

“Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.”

Faith Religious Democracy Have Faith Formal Religious Faith

Author:E. B. White

“Christians today are forced to support, with their tax money, the establishment of another religious faith that stands opposed to everything they believe. The new state church has taken the form of the public school.”

Believe States Today School Christian Form Church Religious Support Taken Taxes Establishment Public School Religious Faith

Author:Benjamin Hart

“The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment and values. A war against standards leads logically and inevitably to hostility to religion because it is religious faith that provides the ultimate basis for all standards.”

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Author:Michael Medved

“Thanks in large measure to the ACLU, the belief that there is a wall of separation between faith and state, not just church and state, is endemic. The exercise of religious faith in the public square is not prohibited; only the federal imposition of a particular faith. Hardly anyone any longer knows the difference.”

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Author:F. LaGard Smith

“Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.”

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Author:Louis Auchincloss

“Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.”

Knows Religious Critical Familiar Religious Faith

Author:Sam Harris

“Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.”

People Real Spirit Certain Courses Religious Agree Foundation Reasonable Guarantees Mutual Divided Dogma Inquiry Religious Faith Unreasonable Guarantees That Antithesis

Author:Sam Harris

“As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard to withhold respect from the faith of Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers”

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Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

“And a noble life is one ordered by, and oriented to, a transcendent moral code, not just one's own concept of existence and meaning and truth. ...if we want a society that reveres life, that defends the family, and that discourages delinquency and promotes decency, we cannot force a privatization of religion; we must allow the truth-claims of religious faith to be uttered aloud in the public square.”

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Author:Rick Santorum

“Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.”

Speak Wish Religious Scientist Decay Exes Religious Faith

Book:The Ethics of Rhetoric

Source: The Ethics of Rhetoric

“I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”

“Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.”

Religious Religious Faith

Author:George Coyne

“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.”

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Author:Evo Morales

“Although many things can be said in criticism of religious faith, there is no discounting its power. Millions among us, even now, are quite willing to die for our unjustified beliefs, and millions more, it seems, are willing to kill for them.”

Said Seems Faith Dies Belief Religious Millions Willing Criticism Religious Faith Willing To Die Unjustified

Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts.”

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Author:Sam Harris

“One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest personal concerns-about ethics, spiritual experience, and the inevitability of human suffering-in ways that are not flagrantly irrational. We desperately need a public discourse that encourages critical thinking and intellectual honesty. Nothing stands in the way of this project more that the respect we accord religious faith.”

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.”

“Religious faith is the only area of discourse where immunity through conversation is considered noble . It's the only area of our lives where someone can win points for saying, "There's nothing that you can do to change my mind and I'm taking no state of the world ultimately into account in believing what I believe. There's nothing to change about the world that would cause me to revise my beliefs.”

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Author:Sam Harris

“I think having some sort of religious faith can be helpful for many people, because it kind of puts things in perspective a bit.”

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Author:Dave Smalley

“The irony is, of course, that many of the values that I was raised with, that I think are very important, that I hold dear, are the result of a religious faith.”

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Author:Steve Coogan

“From the Muslims I learned from the extraordinary pluralism of the Koran, the fact that the Koran endorses every single one of the major world faiths, but I was particularly enthralled by the Sufi tradition, the mystical tradition of Islam, which is so open to other religious faiths.”

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Author:Karen Armstrong

“If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a matter of religious faith, it is the foundation of justice and citizenship in our republic.”

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Author:Alan Keyes

“Also noteworthy is the increasingly violent struggle against the dogmatic foundations of the various churches without which in this human world the practical existence of a religious faith is not conceivable.”

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Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed.”

Ifs Found Religious Example Humanism Destroyed Opposition Destructive Religious Faith Anti Religious Place And Time

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to make sacrifices for the sake of esho funi (the oneness of self and environment). ... I wish the entire world would accept as an item of religious faith the concept of esho funi and its moral obligations.”

World Way Believe Self I Believe Nations Wish Religious Accepting Moral Environment Sacrifice Willing Concepts Sake Conversion Obligation Oneness Items Religious Faith Moral Obligation

Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.”

Mind War Spiritual Form Religious Males Theme Religious Faith Battlefields Pagan Sixteen Polarity

Author:Michelangelo

“Nothing but religious faith has been able to save men from despair.”

Men Has Beens Able Religious Despair Religious Faith Save Me

Author:Hugh B. Brown

“If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“Let's keep people with weird religious faiths out of government. Especially those who have a weird religious faith IN government.”

People Government Religious Religious Faith

Author:David Burge

“Once Mel Gibson revealed himself to be, like the president, a person of serious religious faith, the gloves came off. Mel Gibson has done a major favor for serious faith, both Jewish and Christian, in America. He has made it "cool" to be religious, but in so doing he has unleashed the hatred of secular America against himself personally, against his work and against his family. God bless him.”

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Author:Daniel Lapin

“Even if you're not a Catholic, even if you're not a Christian, in fact even if you have no religious faith at all, what people could see in Pope John Paul was a man of true and profound spiritual faith.”

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Author:Chris Matthews

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