Quotes by Harvey Cox

Harvey Cox

“Religion” can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than “education” can be reduced to what happens in schools or “health care” restricted to what doctors do to patients in clinics. The vast majority of healing and learning goes on among parents and children and families and friends, far from the portals of any school or hospital. The same is true for religion. It is going on around us all the time. Religion is larger and more pervasive than churches.

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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

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God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

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I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.

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Instead of a ‘Western Christianity,’ we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.

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It is always the task of the intellectual to “think otherwise.” This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

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Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

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Not to decide is to decide.

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Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.

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Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.

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Quotes by Harvey Cox

Harvey Cox

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.

Instead of a ‘Western Christianity,’ we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.

It is always the task of the intellectual to “think otherwise.” This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

Not to decide is to decide.

Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.

Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.

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