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“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.”

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication

“Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.”

Way Feels Has Beens Different Stage Position Seeking Different Ways Drag Secular Margins Periphery Secular Society Center Stage

Author:Karen Armstrong

“If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the nearest thing to a sacramental human activity acknowledged by secular society - it is because one of the tasks art has assumed is making forays into and taking up positions on the frontiers of consciousness (often very dangerous to the artist as a person) and reporting back what's there.”

Ifs Humans Persons Art Lasts Artist Consciousness Century Dangerous Position Activity Tasks Secular Frontiers Unprecedented Stature Human Activity Autonomous Secular Society

Author:Susan Sontag

“I think the most important factor moving us toward a secular society has been the educational factor. Our schools may not teach Johnny to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is sixteen tends toward the elimination of religious superstition.”

Thinking May Has Beens Important Facts School Christian Moving Religious Teach Educational Factors Superstitions Secular Sixteen Elimination Secular Society

Author:Paul Blanshard

“The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious.”

Ifs Doe Political Religious Attention Demand Islam Symbols Secular Attire Secular Society

Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“n our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.”

Different Dream Film Unique Nightmare Secular Canvas Superhero Apocalyptic Hopes Dreams Different Faiths Secular Society

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should I be, to allow these babies Black, white and brown, to fight Israel's war, because Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system.”

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Author:Louis Farrakhan

“The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as they chose. . . Man does not live by bread alone. Those in the United States whose desire to create a strictly secular society is as strong as Lenin's was should study this Cold War lesson closely. Communism was defeated by an alliance spearheaded by 'one nation under God.'”

“A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.”

Thinking Community Church Birth Standards Divorce Ties Conception Secular Birth Control Secular Society

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“The public school has become the established church of secular society.”

School Church Education Secular Public School Secular Society

Author:Ivan Illich

“It's been so long now and so much has happened that I am able now to look back with much less emotion and my take on Andy as an artist now comes down to a simple sentence: he made religious art for a secular society which is why it has so much appeal.”

Looks Long Art Made Able Artist Religious Simple Emotion Happened Sentences Appeals Secular Secular Society Religious Art

Author:Bob Colacello

“With the time, yes we can be worried, because the secular state should reflect secular society, and this secular society, with the time, if you don't get rid of those terrorists and these extremists and the Wahabi style, of course it will influence at least the new and the coming generations.”

Ifs Should States Courses Generations Influence Style Terrorist Worried Secular Extremist Yes We Can Secular Society

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.”

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.”

Government Past Left Source Britain Gaps Relative Secular Philanthropy Altruism Secular Society Cutbacks

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.”

Source: The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes

“Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.”

“As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, - as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen, - and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”

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Author:John Adams

“There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.”

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Author:Ruth Hurmence Green

“A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!”

Ifs Looks States Would Be Spiritual Dies Communication Concern Relation Affair Welfare Dictatorship Currency Dictator Swear Secular Secularism Foreign Relations Secular Society

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.”

People Thinking Way Should Ends Goal Fate Modern Talent Mark Wings Crowds Boring Categories Secular Mediocre Standing Out Influential Conformist Secular Society

Author:Alain de Botton

“We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).”

Ideas Used Building Dare Ruins Temples Museums Secular Changing Your Life Secular Society

Author:Alain de Botton

“In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.”

School Church Taken Teaching Secular Secularism Replacements Secular Society

Book:Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.”

“Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

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Book:The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, Including the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia and Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and Resolutions

Source: The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, Including the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia and Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and Resolutions

“We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.”

Choices Struggle Letting Go Concepts Subtle Ritual Peculiar Host Secular Charming Deities Consoling Secular Society

Author:Alain de Botton

“The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.”

Overcoming Assumption Secular Modernity Secular Society

Author:Ulrich Beck

“Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.”

Life Christian Religion Faith Jesus Belief Religious Society Creating Christian Inspirational Secular Pastor Theologian Following Jesus God Within Us Jesus Love Blood Of Jesus Secular Society

Author:Timothy Keller

“Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society?”

Character Development Vehicle Secular Character Development Secular Society

Author:Dennis Prager