Blind Quote by Angelina Grimke

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

— Angelina Grimke

We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly…

— James Madison

Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It…

— Anonymous

We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the…

— Benjamin Rush

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice;…

— Charles Hodge

“Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind.”

— Gerhard Ebeling

“Thus it is, when the moral restraints of religion and tradition, hierarchy and precedent, are removed, the power to suspend or unleash catastrophic events…

— Paul Johnson

“Church doctrine has no place in secular law. You can't take away people's rights to meet your own religious criteria.”

— Marie Sexton

The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over…

— Thomas Jefferson

Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion,…

— Lewis Cass

“A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.”

— Thomas Wolfe

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe, which serve to support tyrannical governments, are not the Christian religion, but abuses and corruptions of it. The religion…

— Noah Webster