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The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Quote by M. H. Abrams

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Quote by Joseph Addison about morality, authority

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about faith, state, moral, public, rightness

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk about religion, mistake, haven, power

The most secular, atheist historian on the planet would have to grant that the entire legal system of Western civilization pivots off those tablets.

Quote by Mike Pence about history, civilization