It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Sir, no nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things… — Paul Washer 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
It is very hard not to see extensive and basic similarities between these (Pagan) religions and the Christian Religion. But somehow Christian… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or… — 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
The civil Government, though bereft of every thing like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete… — James Madison 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
Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If Christ were here now, there is one thing he would not be a Christian. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm going to treat my religion, which is Christian, with great respect and care. — Donald Trump 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
What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of… — John Adams 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
I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing… — Benjamin Franklin 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
Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . .… — John Adams 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
Christians have always tended to transform the Christian Revelation into a Christian religion. Christianity is said to be a religion like any… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
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