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If India is not secular, then India is not India at all.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Indian
Statesman
Born:
Dec 25
,
1924
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,
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India was secular even when Muslims hadn't come here and Christians hadn't set foot on this soil. It is not as if India became secular after they came. They came with their own modes of worship, and they, too, were given a place of honor and respect. They had the freedom to worship God as per their wish and inclination.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
God
Freedom
Respect
Soil
Honor
Secular
Wish
Own
Too
Worship
Muslims
India
Per
Given
Foot
Had
Come
Became
Came
Were
After
Place
Modes
Inclination
Even
Here
Christians
Set
If India is not secular, then India is not India at all.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Secular
India
Then
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
Nature
Gay
Rights
Secular
Gender
Skin
Society
Jim
Jim Crow
Intrinsic
Religious
Sexuality
More
Crow
Color
Part
Identity
Because
Access
His
Deny
Than
Person
Then
Skin Color
Homosexual
Homosexuality
You grow up and recognise that in an educated, secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognise in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.
Hozier
You
Ignorance
Racism
Yourself
Challenge
Secular
Society
Recognise
Member
No Excuse
See
Betterment
Excuse
Educated
Up
Owe
Should
Grow
Grow Up
In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.
Jimmy Carter
Faith
Good
You
Respect
Abortion
Secular
Gun
Gun Control
Control
Evolve
Bad
Religious
Religious Faith
Followers
More
Wrong
Crusade
Attract
Affairs
Fervent
Moderate
Any
Where
Either
Against
Us
Your
Beliefs
Right
When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.
Dennis Prager
Religion
Secular
Jews
Religious
Simply
Judaism
Left
Left-Wing
Godless
Stop
Being
Ethnicity
Humanism
In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man.
Dennis Prager
Nature
Bible
Man
Worldview
Secular
Odds
Own
Creation
Universe
Benefit
Indeed
Independent
Intrinsic
Purpose
Current
Meaning
View
Whole
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.
Conrad Black
War
Faith
Knowledge
Secular
Spirituality
Relativism
Moral
Both
Superstition
Outside
Taken
Leads
Identical
Inexorably
Quest
Often
Which
Midfield
Wickedness
Heresy
It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
You
Problem
Care
Secular
Other
Side
Our
Solve
Solving
Compounding
Seem
Economic
Take
Take Care
Well
Sort
Always
Doing
Been
Optimism
Very
Subtext
Themselves
Things
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
David Antin
Secular
Casual
Sacred
Emphasize
Vernacular
Against
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