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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
Truth
Truth Is
Secular
Universe
Cold
Religious
About
Indifferent
Something
More
Only
Accepting
Suspect
Human
Impulse
Us
Even
Resisting
I would like the secular world to know that the Scriptures are about the things that we wrestle with every day. The Scriptures are not ignorant. Life is really hard. We know that things don't always go well and that our hearts don't naturally obey God.
Trip Lee
Life
God
Day
Every Day
World
Obey
Secular
Every
Our
Would
About
Wrestle
Like
Know
Well
Always
Go
Hearts
Scriptures
Really
Ignorant
Hard
Naturally
Things
Our actions to overthrow secular dictators in Iraq and Libya, and attempts now to do the same in Syria, have resulted in tremendous loss of life, failed nations, and even worse humanitarian crises while strengthening the very terrorist organizations that have declared war on America.
Tulsi Gabbard
Life
War
Secular
Tremendous
Our
Worse
Syria
Crises
Libya
Resulted
Attempts
Failed
Terrorist
Loss
Iraq
Overthrow
Very
Dictators
America
Same
Nations
While
Organizations
Actions
Even
Even Worse
Now
Humanitarian
Strengthening
From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
Vidal Sassoon
Secular
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
Point
Point Of View
Said
View
Humanism
Amount
In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense culture of Princeton University. Like most immigrants, I was looking for a better life in a place I only half understood.
Virginia Postrel
Life
Culture
Conservative
Better
Secular
Half
Looking
Princeton
Fall
Liberal
Carolina
Immigrants
Religious
Only
Better Life
Like
Most
Understood
South
Left
South Carolina
Intense
Place
University
Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.
Whitley Strieber
Christmas
Myself
Remember
Secular
Become
Lost
Every
Magic
About
Fondly
More
Point
Years
Celebration
Wondering
Childhood
Holiday
Much
Found
Now
It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980.
William Odom
Revenge
Secular
Leader
Destroy
Arab
Hussein
Invasion
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Because
However
Iranians
Iraq
Very
Wanted
Interest
Against
Us
Much
Bin
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
Yann Martel
Art
Religion
You
Evil
Secular
Live
Background
Claims
Bounds
Beyond
Answer
How
Go
Existence
Very
Human
Whereas
Human Existence
Certainly
We have plenty of examples from twentieth-century history where, out of fear of liberalism or Communism, religious conservatives made alliances with secular populists and nationalists, and it ended up going pretty badly for everybody.
Ross Douthat
History
Communism
Fear
Secular
Made
Everybody
Conservatives
Liberalism
Plenty
Out
Religious
Pretty
Examples
Alliance
Badly
Up
Ended
Going
Where
The arrogance of secular Jews regarding the ultra-Orthodox community and their attempt to impose on it a different lifestyle is inappropriate.
Ayelet Shaked
Arrogance
Secular
Community
Jews
Lifestyle
Attempt
Impose
Different
Regarding
Inappropriate
Most of the debates I've participated in have been on Christian college campuses or on secular campuses; so, largely before a student audience.
Dinesh D'Souza
Secular
College
Before
Christian
College Campuses
Student
Most
Audience
Been
Debates
Largely
After Operation Protective Edge, I visited every one of the bereaved families. Religious and secular, rich and poor, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, Jews and non-Jews.
Benny Gantz
Secular
Edge
Rich
Every
Jews
Visited
Religious
Protective
Operation
Families
After
Poor
I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.
P. J. O'Rourke
People
Thought
Secular
Country
Think
I Think
Rather
Observant
Had
Always
Quite
Egypt
The rhetoric of anti-Catholicism, whether its sources are Protestant or secular, has always insisted that the church of Rome is the enemy of what you might call healthy sexuality.
Ross Douthat
You
Enemy
Church
Secular
Healthy
Sexuality
Insisted
Call
Protestant
Always
Sources
Rhetoric
Rome
Whether
Might
We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
History
Perseverance
Secular
Own
Numerous
Our
Examples
Experiences
Scriptures
I am a secular rationalist Nationalist proud Indian who is inconvenient to both Hindu and Muslim communalists.
Javed Akhtar
I Am
Secular
Muslim
Indian
Both
Hindu
Proud
Am
Nationalist
Who
Inconvenient
We have left and right; religious and secular; Druse; ultra-Orthodox women. Unity is very important.
Benny Gantz
Women
Secular
Important
Unity
Religious
Left
Very
Right
When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.
Noam Chomsky
Secular
Way
Like
Yang
Turned
Figures
Stanford
University
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