Best christian & religious Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 5

Author:Will Durant

“The Supreme Court's 1947 decision which introduced the wall of separation between church and state 'has fueled a movement to sterilize anything in American public life from religion.'”

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Author:Mickey Edwards

“Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult... The tenets of Christianity are regularly held up to ridicule.”

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Book:A Jewish conservative looks at pagan America

Source: A Jewish conservative looks at pagan America

“We may be unable to maintain even a semblance of order in our urban schools, which increasingly resemble happy hour in Beirut. But, hallelujah, we sure know how to protect kids from God.”

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Book:A Jewish conservative looks at pagan America

Source: A Jewish conservative looks at pagan America

“No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.”

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Author:Don Feder

“Bill Clinton says the middle-class folks in Topeka who contribute to The 700 Club or Focus on the Family are radicals whose beliefs pose a mortal danger to this nation!”

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Book:Who's Afraid of the Religious Right?

Source: Who's Afraid of the Religious Right?

“It's said the religious right wants to force its faith on the public. But whose faith are we talking about?... Everyone who operates in the political arena wants to see their morals reflected in our laws and governmental institutions - including the National Organization of Women, the National Abortion Rights Action League, and the American Civil Liberties Union, whether or not they are willing to admit it.”

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Author:Don Feder

“Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.”

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Author:Don Feder

“By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.”

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Book:Who's Afraid of the Religious Right?

Source: Who's Afraid of the Religious Right?

“To suggest that conservatives have a monopoly on hate is an ideological mugging of reality.”

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Book:Who's Afraid of the Religious Right?

Source: Who's Afraid of the Religious Right?

“The Church must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics.”

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Author:Charles Grandison Finney

“In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children.”

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Book:Legislating Morality: Is It Wise? Is It Legal? Is It Possible?

Source: Legislating Morality: Is It Wise? Is It Legal? Is It Possible?

“Since the Court took God our of our schools, we've gotten exactly what we should expect: godless schools.”

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Book:Legislating Morality: Is It Wise? Is It Legal? Is It Possible?

Source: Legislating Morality: Is It Wise? Is It Legal? Is It Possible?

“For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians serves no one's interests. That restriction prevents people from drawing on this country's rich and diverse religious heritage for guidance, and it degrades the nation's moral discourse by placing a whole realm of theological reasoning out of bounds. The price of that sort of quarantine, at a time of moral dislocation, is - and has been - far too high.”

“We have battled in America since the century's turn to bring to nothing any and all Christian influences and we are succeeding. While we today seem to be kind to the Christian, remember we have yet to influence the 'Christian world' to our ends... You must work until 'religion' is synonymous with 'insanity'... It is only necessary to work incessantly upon the official, using personal defamations, wild lies, false evidences and constant propaganda to make him fight for you against the church or against any practitioner.”

Source: THE SOVIET ART OF BRAINWASHING: A synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics

“John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the power of the Internal Revenue Service is threatening to destroy the freedom of religion , guaranteed by the First Amendment. As part of that guarantee, Congress has granted tax exemptions for churches to avoid excessive interference in their religious activities.”

“The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith .”

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Author:Os Guinness

“The religious habits of the Americans form not only the basis of their private and public morals, but have become so thoroughly interwoven with their whole course of legislation that it would be impossible to change them without affecting the very essence of their government.”

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Book:Americans

Source: Americans

“America has become politically and culturally agnostic, and the Christian faith in the minds of many has come to represent intolerance.”

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Book:Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty