Secularism Quotes

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.

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

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Perhaps more than ever before, there is that aggressive secularism and there are those who would indeed try to destroy our Christian heritage and culture and take God from the public square. Religion must not be taken from the public square.

It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

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.