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The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.

They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left, and we're not going to take it anymore.

They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly. ... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit.

They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things.

Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]

Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

This dull river has a deep religion of its own; so, let us trust, has the dullest human soul, though, perhaps, unconsciously.

This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in a test tube, or has in any way come into a relationship with it as he has with the other objects of his daily experience.

This god, this one word: I.

This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sympathy, than any belief in the history of mankind. Yet this doctrine was taught unambiguously by Jesus.

This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.

This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

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This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.

This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind.

Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.

Those of little faith are of little hatred.

Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them.

...Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I, and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas.

Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.

Those who think all religions are the same look at the wrappings instead of the content.

Those who've been rescued from sin are best able to help in the rescue of others.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by the laws of physics and chemistry and therefore are as determined as the orbits of the planets.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved.

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.

To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.