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The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public…
— Thomas Jefferson
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No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.
— Thomas Jefferson
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We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon…
— Thomas Jefferson
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[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the especial duty of…
— Joseph Story
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If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.
— William Blake
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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
— Oscar Wilde
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.
— Arianna Huffington
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Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating…
— Thomas Paine
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The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.
— Thomas Paine
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Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live…
— Thomas Paine
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How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?
— Dan Barker
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
— Edward Gibbon
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Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden…
— A. Whitney Brown
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It's too early for a Polish pope.
— Pope John Paul II
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The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the…
— Adolf Hitler
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The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
— Herb Caen
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