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"I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization."
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"Living life is the greatest grace from God."
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"One spirit, one shepherd."
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"Jesus Christ, the holy Saviour is the Great Physician of Souls."
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"If any religion allows you to torture animals or sacrifice an animal for the sake of procuring god's favor, then that is not a religion. It is an absurd practice of inhumanity."
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"There can be no truce between science and religion."
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"Live every day in the full expression of God's grace in this coming year."
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"The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion."
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"Lord I thank you for the grace of living life."
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"Life experiences teaches me to depend absolute on God."
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"Religion [dharma] originates where there is doer-ship [to do], Moksha [ultimate liberation] originates where there is understanding (to understand)."
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"If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes."
Democracy
"Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally."
Change
"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
Cultural
"But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world."
Society
"Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic."
People
"There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved."
Values
"Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy."
Democracy
"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."
Democracy
"The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude."
People
"The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance."
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