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“Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.”

Important Religion Nations Institutions

Author:Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

“It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.”

Source: Systematic Theology

“The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.”

“Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for the benefit of material security in spite of occasional twinges of conscience and moral protests. The result has been that today much of organized religion is materialistically solvent but spiritually bankrupt.”

“Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.”

Men World Humans Would Be Law Religion Force Understanding Independent Institutions Substance Cheat Paramount

Book:The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

“Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.”

People Reason Religion Religious Simple Huge Transformation Institutions Organized Spite

Book:Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

“The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.”

States Government Religion Institutions Alternatives Humanistic

Author:R.J. Rushdoony

“Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries. For nearly all Christians since that time, Catholics, Protestants, or Orthodox, have shared three basic premises. First, they accept the canon of the New Testament; second, they confess the apostolic creed; and third, they affirm specific forms of church institution. But every one of these - the canon of Scripture, the creed, and the institutional structure - emerged in its present form only toward the end of the second century.”

“Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.”

Men Giving Feelings Religion Social Religious Wise Institutions Improvement Devotion Rational Promotion Profitable Social Being

Book:Select sermons: delivered on various occasions from important passages of Scripture

Source: Select sermons: delivered on various occasions from important passages of Scripture

“If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.”

Ifs Soul Body Might Religion Institutions Islam Muslim Family

Book:Women and the family in the Middle East: new voices of change

Source: Women and the family in the Middle East: new voices of change

“churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.”

Hands Religion Church Majors Capitalism Institutions Bites Rooted

Author:Georgia Harkness

“I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms of your theological institutions, I care not for the beauty and solemnity of your rituals and religious ceremonies, I care not even for the reasonableness and unimpeachable fairness of your social ethics,--if it does not turn out better, nobler, truer, men and women,--if it does not add to the world's stock of valuable souls,--if it does not give us a sounder, healthier, more reliable product from this great factory of men--I will have none of it.”

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness, and truth in politicians than in partisan preachers. They are not replied to - no chance to reply to them.... The balance wheel of free institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion.”

Should Religion Chance Balance Politician Institutions Discussion Wheels Preacher Fairness Partisans Pulpit Candor Partisanship

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.”

Persons Religion Amount Institutions Committed Judged Atrocities Right Conduct

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!”

People Should Political Religion Religious Institutions Hypocrisy Political Institutions

Author:Dalai Lama

“As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.”

Writing Long Government Religion Institutions Print Censorship Religion Politics

Author:Pierre Beaumarchais

“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”

Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine

“Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.”