“The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights. – Oswald Chambers” — Duke Taber Copy Share Image
It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . . — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. — James Madison Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The feminist establishment has made choice a woman's issue. The Christian right has made life a religious issue. Both have made loyalty… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Lots of my friends and family belong to churches, and some of them are part of the so-called Christian Right. In this… — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Christian [historical] revisionism is integral to the Christian Right's approach to politics and public policy. If one's political righteousness and sense of… — Frederick Clarkson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The Right thinks that the breakdown of the family is the source of crime and poverty, and this they very insightfully blame… — John D. Caputo Copy Share Image
“A Christian has no right to separate his life into two realms... to say the Bible is good for Sunday, but this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This attitude of how society views women as chattel - that's the biggest thing to overcome. When I first started a stake… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“Equally important is the effect of Last Days thinking on questions of world environmental damage. If the Last Days are coming, it… — Diarmaid MacCulloch Copy Share Image
They always throw around this term 'the liberal elite.' And I kept thinking to myself about the Christian right. What's more elite… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Isn't it curious how quickly a conservative becomes a libertarian when he's caught sinning? There's a lesson in that somewhere, if only… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to praise God, for 'all things work… — A. C. Dixon Copy Share Image
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees. — Michael Scanlon Copy Share Image
. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
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