It's not just the effect of technology on the environment on religion on the economic structure on society on politics etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants vengeful or milky sweet or scrupulously just and so on.
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever least of all to organized religion.
We establish no religion in this country nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness just as Greek drama had once done.
It is already clear after twenty years of socialism in Russia that if you do not provide your society with a new religion it will gradually revert to the old one.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Every society and religion has rules for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists as in art of drawing the line somewhere.
We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that on the one hand acknowledges the role of religion in society while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didn't like what our parents had.
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.
As I grew up I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly to find your real job and do it.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
The test of one's behavior pattern is their relationship to society relationship to work and relationship to sex.
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
I say the law should be blind to race gender and sexual orientation just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind except for children the severely disabled and the elderly whose physical frailty demands society's care.
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.