#secular

The secularizing 'values' and events that have been predicted would happen in the Muslim world have now begun to unfold with increasing momentum and persistence due still to the Muslims' lack of understanding of the true nature and implications of secularization as a philosophical program. ↗

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

#secularization #nature

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief. ↗

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

#religion #secularity #spirituality #religion

Misstraue jedem Politiker, jedem Regierungs- oder Staatschef, der seine Religion zum Instrument macht. Halte Abstand von solchen Politikern, die ihre auf das Jenseits orientierte Religion und ihre diesseitige Politik miteinander vermischen. ↗

— Helmut Schmidt

#fundamentalism #politics #religion #secularism #religion

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

#allowed #any #attractive #because #decided

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#alabama #biologically #evolution #freshman #freshman year

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

— Ulrich Beck

#basic #modernity #overcomes #religion #secular

Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#jordan #respects #secular #some #very

The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#elites #get #got #islam #islamists

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#everybody #formed #forward #intellectual #know

We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had. ↗

— John Legend

#choice #gospel #growing #growing up #had