Atheism Quote by Jack Balkin Download Open image “There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country.” — Jack Balkin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Country Desire Identity Majority Positive atheism Powerful Religion Religious Religious identity
The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
This is the most religious country in the world and sometimes we try to stifle that fact or hide it. But the profound and… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
Strong religious identities survive and thrive. But more than ever before, even in their most conservative iterations, they are chosen. — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Government sponsorship of religious activity, including prayer services, sacred symbols, religious festivals, and the like, tends to secularize the religious activity rather than make… — John M Swomley Copy Share Image
There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity. — Joel Hunter Copy Share Image
In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The reasoning isn't crazy. It's technically correct. If you're being true to the idea that government must not take positions on religious questions, then… — Jack Balkin Copy Share Image
Every religion I know of has changed its views with respect to concrete controversies over long periods of time. People's views about the morality… — Jack Balkin Copy Share Image
Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world… — Jack Balkin Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee 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 other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image