Quotes About Religious Pluralism

#1. The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. Now, I think we can all agree that fear is a motivator. The problem is that fear can motivate us to do the wrong things, too. Fear can make the "saving of our skins" the priority, as it does in this case involving religious pluralism.

Curtis A. Chamberlain

#3. I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden.

Shashi Tharoor

#4. Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.

Charles Colson

#5. A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.

Benjamin Hart

#6. "Who are we to say what is right and what is wrong?" is the common refrain under the doctrine of pure pluralism. Clearly, society cannot long survive if this principle is pushed to its logical conclusion and everyone is free to write his own laws.

Benjamin Hart

#7. It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind.

Christopher Hitchens

#8. How can one maintain a theological confidence in what one claims to be _true_ while acknowledging the existence of multiple religions that also claim to be _true_?

Namsoon Kang

#9. I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.

Chuck D

#10. Many religious moderates have taken the apparent high road of pluralism, asserting the equal validity of all faiths, but in doing so they neglect to notice the irredeemably sectarian truth claims of each.

Sam Harris

#11. I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.

Marissa Mayer

#12. I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#13. My father believed in me many times more than I believed in myself.

Novak Djokovic

#14. How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more Beautiful than Beauty's self.

John Keats

#15. [ ... ] pluralism implies religious tolerance, not unchecked religious freedom.

Reza Aslan

#16. You've got to be realistic.

Patrick Rafter

#17. I used to believe that love was finding someone who would lead you through the deep water.

Anne Hathaway

#18. Proponents of so-called pluralism feel compelled to ban religious considerations from public discourse because they know, instinctively if not intellectually, that their faith is in direct conflict with the God of the Bible, and that in the end the two positions are irreconcilable.

Benjamin Hart

#19. From the Muslims I learned from the extraordinary pluralism of the Koran, the fact that the Koran endorses every single one of the major world faiths, but I was particularly enthralled by the Sufi tradition, the mystical tradition of Islam, which is so open to other religious faiths.

Karen Armstrong

#20. To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt.

Scott Tinley

#21. The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.

David Barton