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“Abdur Rab offers a comprehensive vision of Islam using the Quran as his sole religious textual source. He intentionally avoids the hadith literature, which he believes, and argues, has done much damage to the message of the Quran. His work provides many thought-provoking insights and should be a significant contribution to the 'Quran only' movement in modern Islam.”

“Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.”

May Matter Age Literature Given Religious Exercise Taste Judgment Aesthetic Sophisticated

Author:Lionel Trilling

“I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.”

Literature Social Religious Perspective Capable Philosophical Ashamed Horizon New Perspective New Horizons

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.”

World Art Ideas Political Literature Religious Moral Window Theater Presses Cinema Manifestation Display Posters Nazism Nazi Germany Rotting Mein Kampf

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? I read the King James Bible, as all English writers should. And when I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.”

Bigs Literature Church Religious Atheism Asking Atheist Edits Hymns Mould Big Questions

Author:Mark Haddon

“The new advocates of ID [Intelligent Design] ask that their ideas be judged by scientific, not religious, criteria. OK, let's see how well ID stacks up as a scientific alternative to Darwinism. To gauge how well ID is doing as a platform for scientific research, I logged into the best database of the biological literature. A search for keyword ''evolution'' yielded 24,000 hits in the last decade. A search for ''intelligent design'' yielded not a single piece of research. Evolution by natural selection remains the basis of every successful biological research program.”

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

Christian Literature Religious Christianity Humanism Traditional Theme Secular Harsh Assault Recurring Secular Humanism Recurring Themes

Book:Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents

Source: Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents

“I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature that brings the conversation of God into a modern context. I love the Bible, but in the West we've analyzed it until it fits into a structure of control. We need more new stories. We need different ways of looking at things, and I think it's coming.”

People Thinking Way Needs Giving Book Different Enough Stories Literature Language Religious Modern Fit Conversation Structure West Different Ways

Author:William P. Young

“The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.”

Literature Religious Bible Contradiction Passages Absurdity Sublime Inconsistency English Literature

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.”

Values Found Literature Religious Special Originals Scripture Artistic Chinese Indian Prose Sublime Monument Hebrew Persian Religious Values Special Beauty

Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.”

Literature Religious Prove Hinduism Illustration

Book:Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)

Source: Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)

“My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.”

Literature Religious Complicated True Religion Non Religious Religious Family

Author:Orhan Pamuk