Quotes on Secular Society

Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).

The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

The public school has become the established church of secular society.