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"One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
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"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
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"Christmas makes everything twice as sad."
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"If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere."
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"The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced."
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"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely."
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"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ."
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"I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist."
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"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."
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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."
Religion
"Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful."
People
"We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization."
Cultural
"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
"Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others."
Society
"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
"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
"If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe."
Cultural
"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."
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