Bifurcation Quote by Joan D. Chittister

“The tendency to turn human judgements into divine commands turns religion into one of the most dangerous forces in the world.”

— Georgia Harkness

“When the church aligns itself politically, it gives priority to the compromises and temporal successes of the political world rather than its Christian confession…

— Charles W. Colson

Those called to the service of governance in the church need to have a strong sense of justice, so that any form of injustice…

— Pope Francis

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The restraints and warnings of the divine law are all intended for our good, and to keep us out of that danger into which…

— Matthew Henry

The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the…

— Richard Dawkins

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

— Georgia Harkness

At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests…

— Gary Hamel

... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest…

— Frances Wright

Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union…

— Peter Kreeft

The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the world and…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer