Abuse Quote by Noah Webster

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

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

— James Madison

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

— Anthony Trollope

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy,

— R.J. Rushdoony

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

— Laurens van der Post

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

— John Haynes Holmes

Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a "Christian club.

— Walter Kasper

Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave…

— Thomas Paine

“My dear, religion is a null area in the law. A church can do anything any organization can do—and has no restrictions. It pays…

— Robert A. Heinlein