Religion
See also: Religion in Turkey and Secularism in TurkeyMost Turkish people are Muslims, the majority following the Sunni branch of Islam, with the remainder being Alevis. However, the Turks generally take a fairly moderate attitude toward their religion and have developed a brand of secularism, known as Kemalism, when in 1924, the caliph was abdicated and all overt expressions of Islam from public life were banished.
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“To sum up:
1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute.
2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)