This group is more in tune with a religious life than previous generations, ... It's a remarkable shift toward religiosity 35 percent consider themselves to be born again. They've gone from the 'me' generation to the 'we' generation.
Quotes about religiosity (10 Quotes)
The Spanish colonial period, through the 19th century and even into the early 20th century, was an era of very public religiosity. People wanted to show an image of a saint to whom they were devoted. Religion was public.
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
We're completely opposed to ethnic quotas, in the sense it will push people to identify themselves to a particular community. One of the biggest strengths of France is the fact that issues of ethnicity and religiosity are extremely porous -- as you can see with the very mixed population that exists in France.
My deep religiosity... found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe a spirit vastly superior to that of man.... In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive.
Things are historically specific to the time, ... This is kind of a crisis time. People are paying 4 a gallon for gasoline. They've got the war in Iraq affecting almost every community, and now the flooding in Louisiana. Things like that get on our nerves. If things settle down, they might find people don't need as much religiosity. That's hard to predict.
There is a great deal of concern that there is a fundamentalist religiosity emerging that is demanding that we suspend our right to free expression.
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.