“Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in.” ReligionChurchChristianityMembersFellowsSinnerPoundsHammersHalfwayDoorwaysChurch Members Author:Mordecai Ham
“To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself” StatesGovernmentReligionHouseBlackChurchUnitedUnited StatesLandDutyCitizensEssentialsConstitutionFellowsBillsMeetingsPracticalsOccasionsGreekPurityDistinctionAddressesGrantsTerritoryBaptistsObjectionsMississippiCarolinaContainingNorth CarolinaConstitution Of The United StatesCreeksApprovingSalemPublic Lands Author:James Madison
“People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I'm not. I'm a most religious fellow. I was brought up a Christian and I only now understand some of the things that Christ was saying in those parables. Because people got hooked on the teacher and missed the message. All this bit about electing a President. We pick our own daddy out of a dog pound of daddies.” PeopleChristianPoliticalReligionBitsPresidentChristReligiousTeacherDogMessagesPicksFellowsPoundsDaddyHookedParablesAnti Christ Author:John Lennon
“And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public executions were more popular than ever: heretics were still reduced to ash, scholars were tortured and killed for impertinent displays of reason, and fornicators were murdered without a qualm.” HumansStillsReasonReligionHuman BeingsFellowsVarietyBrokeTreatmentRomeDisplayScholarExecutionAshesProtestantsHereticReformersDisgracefulQualms Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.” ChildrenBeautifulReligionSpiritualityReligiousFreedomWifeAtheismTheorySmartRespectFellowsAtheistIntelligenceCynicalAtheisticPhilosophy Of ReligionTheismPhilosophy And ReligionGod DelusionCurmudgeonGreatest AtheistDaily AtheistMinority Report Author:H. L. Mencken