“Catholicism made me a humanist before I knew the word. When people rail against “secular humanism,” I want to ask them if humanism itself would be okay with them if it wasn’t so secular. Then I want to ask, “Why do you think it is secular?” This would lead to my opinion that their beliefs were not humanist.”
Source: Life Itself : A Memoir (2011), Ch. 54 : How I Believe In God
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Die Leuchte des Diogenes (1804) p. 329.

which I am.
Source: Life Itself : A Memoir (2011), Ch. 54 : How I Believe In God

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“Rationalism… is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.”
Pg 227.
Against Method (1975)