"For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities."

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Source : "America Has a Prayer". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 6, 2012.

Rodney Stark

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“Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.”

Source : Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.255
“On becoming soldiers we have not ceased to be citizens.”
“That so many of us find it entirely plausible that a vast network of researchers and health officials and doctors worldwide would willfully harm children for money is evidence of what capitalism is really taking from us. Capitalism has already impoverished the working people who generate wealth for others. And capitalism has already impoverished us culturally, robbing unmarketable art of its value. But when we begin to see the pressures of capitalism as innate laws of human motivation, when we begin to believe that everyone is owned, then we are truly impoverished.”

Source : Jean Vanier (2008). “Becoming Human”, p.67, Paulist Press
“Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.”
“The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.”

Source : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
“It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.”

Source : George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.10, Prometheus Books
“Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.”
“It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more improbable and nothing but an imitation of God's, exercises a strange attraction.”

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