End result Quote by Robert Heinlein

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

It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves…

— Martin Luther

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity…

— Christopher Hitchens

“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with…

— Jeremy Bentham

Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“For the first time in my life, I was reading things which had not been approved by the Prophet's censors, and the impact on…

— Robert A. Heinlein

In the end, the church will either declare the truth of God's Word, or it will find a way to run away from it.

— Albert Mohler

Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what…

— Richard Mentor Johnson

“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

“Religious repression is the denial of the very essence of what it means to be human.”

— Timothy Shah

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

— Marie Sexton

“When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to…

— Harry A. Blackmun