Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher. . . . As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more. . . . Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?
Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.
Secularism must be applied everywhere, because that is how everyone will be able to live in peace with each other.
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
Congress' dynastic politics has shattered the hopes & aspirations of people. Congress hides behind the veil of secularism whenever its governance falters and its misconduct is exposed. This will no longer go unchallenged. The younger generation will not accept these actions of Congress!
When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies.
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India.
The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1. 5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.
Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong. . . . The answer to bad religion is better religion--prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.
We don't say that we don't have it, we're still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.
When it comes to the culture, there's no such thing as peaceful coexistence. If we're not defending truth, fighting for Christian values in all of life, the truth will be sacrificed on the altar of mainstream secularism.
Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.
Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.
Muslim societies must leave behind these dual aspects: secularismIslamism.
Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you
French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.
Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence. . . To eat is still something more than to maintain bodily functions. People may not understand what that 'something more' is, but they nonetheless desire to celebrate it. They are still hungry and thirsty for sacramental life.
Secularism produces a bored soul
