#secular

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted. ↗

— Luke Ford

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Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#before #biographies #drawn #few #had

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#common #each #faith #frame #french

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#dedicated #rites #secular #travel

Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#back #behold #bits #capital #certain

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#believers #engage #establish #faith #imply

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

#moral #people #religious #religious people #secular

Reading is the last act of secular prayer. ↗

— Richard Powers

#last #prayer #reading #secular

As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular. ↗

— Shahrukh Khan

#as far as #concerned #far #india #public

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 Kirk

#christianity #concerns #division #end #god