“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.”

—  Roger Ebert

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

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Catholicism made me a humanist before I knew the word. When people rail against “secular humanism,” I want to ask them …" by Roger Ebert?
Roger Ebert photo
Roger Ebert 264
American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter 1942–2013

Related quotes

James A. Michener photo
Aung San Suu Kyi photo
Adam Weishaupt photo
Roger Ebert photo
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk photo

“Why after my years of education, after studying the secular civilization and the socialization process, should I decent to the level of common people, I will make them rise to my level, let me not resemble them, they should resemble me!”

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey

Diary entry in Karlsbad on 6 July 1918, also quoted in Ataturk: Founder of Modern Turkey, a biographical documentary about Atatürk

John Gray photo
Narendra Modi photo
Shlomo Amar photo

“There is no such thin as having understanding or tolerance for this. … When I have spoken about this in the past, secular people called to thank me. People don't want it. They want their children to get married and have children.”

Shlomo Amar (1948) Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem

About the LGBT community in an interview with Israel Hayom http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=38063 (November 17, 2016)

Jonathan Safran Foer photo

“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let them hurt me.”

Variant: There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let them hurt me. (p. 181)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 181

Paul Karl Feyerabend photo

Related topics