Secular Quotes - Page 14

• We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart.

  Newt Gingrich

  Rip, People, Machines

  The Mark Levin Show, ABC Radio Networks, June 24, 2010.

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• We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

  Esther Perel

  Religious, Anxiety, Guilt

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• Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

  Karl Jaspers

  Giving Up, Ideas, Community

  Karl Jaspers (1997). “Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity”, p.61, JHU Press

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• 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.

  John Rawls

  Religious, Ideas, Two

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• Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the Middle East is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.

  L. Neil Smith

  Wise, Country, Jobs

  "Enquiring Minds and the Oil War". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. July 11, 2010.

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• Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the ordered, bourgeois world of the 'last man' he who will pay any price in tedium for comfort and the absence of tension.

  John Carroll

  Religious, Men, Comfort

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.78, Taylor & Francis

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• Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.

  Benjamin Carson

  Squares, Usa, Principles

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish the moral depravity of Christianity.

  Guenter Lewy

  Christian, Religious, Order

  Guenter Lewy (1996). “Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents”, p.21, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Hope and optimism are different. Optimism tends to be based on the notion that there's enough evidence out there to believe things are gonna be better, much more rational, deeply secular, whereas hope looks at the evidence and says, "It doesn't look good at all. Doesn't look good at all. Gonna go beyond the evidence to create new possibilities based on visions that become contagious to allow people to engage in heroic actions always against the odds, no guarantee whatsoever." That's hope. I'm a prisoner of hope, though. Gonna die a prisoner of hope.

  Cornel West

  Believe, Odds, People

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

  Guenter Lewy

  Christian, Religious, Literature

  Guenter Lewy (1996). “Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents”, p.36, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians.

  Ronald H. Nash

  Christian, Religious, Conservative

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• There is a sad myth going around today - the myth of neutrality. According to this myth, the secular world gives every point of view an equal chance to be heard. And it works fairly well - unless you are a Christian.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Religious, Views

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• Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case since it has an officially Communistic ideology, but it's not, it's the most religious state it's possible to imagine. It's actually two people who have been fused into one, maybe this is reminding you of something, there's the father and there's the son. It's one short of a trinity.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Father, Son

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• . . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.

  Harry Blamires

  Christian, Mind, Weakness

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• I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Fiction, Enjoy

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• The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of rulers in sacred, no less than in secular matters, should merely have to do with actions, but that every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Exercise, Men, Thinking

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus" by Baruch Spinoza, ch. 20, 1677.

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• Secular humanism debases the human.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Secular Humanism, Humans, Humanism

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• Paul Brunton was surely one of the finest mystical flowers to grow on the wasteland of our secular civilization. What he has to say is important to us all.

  Georg Feuerstein

  Flower, Civilization, Important

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• Friedrich Nietzsche predicted that secular people, losing touch with transcendence, would eventually lose a reference point from which to look down and judge themselves. In the end they would lose even the capacity to despise themselves. Thus, because of the 'death of God', they would confuse heaven with happiness, and happiness with health.

  Os Guinness

  People, Judging, Heaven

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• I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all?

  Ellen Goodman

  Religious, Moving, Acceptance

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• If it be the characteristic of a worldly man that he desecrates what is holy, it should be of the Christian to consecrate what is secular, and to recognize a present and presiding divinity in all things.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Christian, Men, Divinity

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• For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron.

  Judith Plaskow

  People, Feminist, Religion

  Judith Plaskow (1990). “Standing again at Sinai: Judaism from a feminist perspective”, Harpercollins

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• Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.

  Arundhati Roy

  Mind, India, Flags

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Trusting each other is the beginning of a certain secular faith, a faith that allows us to live in families and communities and nations. Democracy, above all other forms of government, requires this faith.

  Sue Halpern

  Government, Trusting Each Other, Community

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• The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.

  David Edward Kirk

  Mean, Men, Division

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