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“An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.”

Religion Greater Morality Injustice Tolerable

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against......Every new and successful example therefore of a PERFECT SEPARATION between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance........religion and government will exist in greater purity, without (rather) than with the aid of government.”

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Author:James Madison

“The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time on the continent of Africa because for all this time black men had been captivated by the doctrines of Christianity. It took them centuries to realize its contradictions. ... perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in the name of Jesus Christ.”

“There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.”

Should Religion Christianity Greater Hypocrisy Paradox Professors

Author:Laurence Sterne

“Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety and stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.”

Religion Universe Heaven Voice Church Quality Greater Air Streets Special Clothes Sunshine Sunday Stillness Smooth Formal Polite Polished Propriety Greetings Bland

Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.”

Men Long Religion Faith Belief Animal Knowledge Learning Path Greater Diversity Respect Fundamentals Remains Individualism Diverse Inquiring Free Thought Unanimity Divergence

Author:Arthur Keith

“The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.”

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Book:Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.”

Heart Hands Seems Religion Literature Greater Fine Ideals Tradition Dependent Second Hand Fine Things Greater Things

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.”

Source: James Madison's

“I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into a kind of Creed, according to the Opinions of the most celebrated Atheists; I say, supposing such a Creed as this were formed, and imposed upon any one People in the World, whether it would not require an infinitely greater Measure of Faith, than any Set of Articles which they so violently oppose.”

Religion Faith Literature Greater Atheism Atheist Deny Positive Atheism

Author:Joseph Addison

“Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control.”