It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.

Richard M. Weaver

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Better for them to deny the mind--and with it rationality, truth, and science itself--than to admit the soul. Once again, the secularist manifests the very dogmatism of which he accuses the religious believer, and in rationalizing it is willing to contemplate absurdities of which no religious believer has ever dreamed.

Edward Feser

Tags: consciousness secularism



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A truly free society protects all faiths, and true faith protects a free society.

Rick Warren

Tags: separation-of-church-and-state secularism 1st-amendment



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وإذ تتحول التجربة إلى «أصل» فإنها تُثْقِل على كل التاريخ اللاحق، وذلك من حيث تغدو موضوعاً للامتثال والتكرار، بدل أن تكون ساحة للتمثُّل والحوار. وإذن، فإن «الأطلقة» - وليس سواها - هي ما يُحيل تجارب البشر من «تاريخ حي» إلى «نصٍ أو أصلٍ جامد» يقف خارجه؛ على النحو الذى يكون معه أشبه بالشاهد المصمت المُعلق على قبر صاحبه، والذي لا يعرف الخَلَف اللاحق إلا التعبُّد في ظلاله. وتلك هي جوهر الممارسة السلفية؛ على أن يكون معلوماً أن هذه الممارسة لا تقف عند حدود من يُقال أنهم سلفيو هذا الزمان، بل تتجاوزهم إلى من يُقال أنهم حداثيوه أيضاً. و سواء مورست هذه «الأطلقة»، تحت يافطة الدين أو العلمانية، فإنها تمثل خطراً داهماً على الدولة

علي مبروك

Tags: religion secularism philosophy-of-religion



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...The existence or non-existence of an undefined 'god' are quite pointless.

[From 'Why I am a Secular Humanist']

Herman Bondi

Tags: atheism humanism atheist secularism secular pointless humanist



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we can't be secular till there is politics because it is a religion that hates every other religion...

Ranu Das

Tags: politics religion secularism ranu-das



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Truly barren is a secular education. It is always in labor, but never gives birth.

Gregory of Nyssa

Tags: education secularism barrenness labor-without-fruit



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And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

Vikram Seth

Tags: love secularism hindu-muslim-unity inter-faith-love



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Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.

Fred Whitehead

Tags: history atheism secularism freethought american-history 19th-century 19th-century-america social-movement



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The author compares rationalism and much of organized religion do a dictator who paves over natural springs in order to dispense water in a more organized fashion. The pushback of the world hungry for wonder may be compared to the break out of those springs from their constraints. Not everything they produce is healthy, but the overreaction of eliminating them is worse.

N.T. Wright

Tags: spirituality worship secularism spontaneity rationalism



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