#secular

'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for. ↗

— Eric Liu

#christian faith #every #faith #just #life

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#because #color #crow #deny #gay

Reading is the last act of secular prayer. ↗

— Richard Powers

#last #prayer #reading #secular

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#angry #atheism #atheists #more #people

Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#character #emotional #facet #how #innately

There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for the origin of the world, life and humans. Science now gives us increasingly complete explanations for those big three. ↗

— J. Anderson Thomson Jr.

#atheism #atheist #biology #cosmology #guessing

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#assumed #both #dominant #faith #gave

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it. ↗

— Tom Flynn

#accepting #cold #even #gloriously #human

It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government. ↗

— Roy Moore

#both #church #god #government #meant

I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people. ↗

— Robert Runcie

#cook #gave #i #numbered #people