Stephen L. Carter quotes - page 2

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.' (Stephen L. Carter)
One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion. View quote
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In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful to be other than themselves, to act publicly, and sometimes privately as well, as though their faith does not matter to them. View quote
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We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action. View quote
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There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause. View quote
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The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their faith, take positions that differ from approved state policy - is one of their strengths. View quote
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Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it. View quote
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Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable. View quote
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Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not. View quote
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We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed. View quote
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In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives. (Stephen L. Carter)
This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously. View quote
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