“Their [the evangelicals'] success also points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause... They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them.” NeedsCareReligionCausesIssuesParticularProductsListeningHungerSellingAssuranceEvangelists Author:Barack Obama
“...several of the first presidents, including Jefferson and Madison, generally refused to issue public prayers, despite importunings to do so. Under pressure, Madison relented in the War Of 1812, but held to his belief that chaplains shouldn't be appointed to the military or be allowed to open Congress.” FirstsWarReligionBeliefPresidentPrayerIssuesMilitaryPressureIncludingCongressDespiteUnder PressureMadisonChaplainsWar Of 1812 Author:James Madison
“As in 1925, creationists are not battling for religion. They have been disowned by leading church men of all persuasions, for they debase religion even more than they misconstrue science. They are a motley collection to be sure, but their core of practical support lies with the evangelical right, and creationism is a mere stalking horse or subsidiary issue in a political program...The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the 'liberal' rhetoric of 'equal time'.” MenHas BeensPoliticalLyingReligionChurchEnemyCasesSupportIssuesEqualProgramHorseMereCorePracticalsCollectionsIntoleranceRhetoricFundamentalismPersuasionStalkingEvangelicalCreationismMasquerade Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“My idea of the Christian religion is, that it is an inspiration and its vital consequences--an inspiration and a life--God's life breathed into a man and breathed through a man--the highest inspiration and the highest life of every soul which it inhabits; and, furthermore, that the soul which it inhabits can have no high issue which is not essentially religious.” MenIdeasSoulInspirationChristianReligionReligiousIssuesHighestConsequence Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS
“The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.” ReligionPoliticsSexIssuesSensitiveTrilogies Author:Nawal El Saadawi
“But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured - perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in - for that should be important only to me - but what kind of America I believe in.” ShouldBelieveKindHas BeensImportantRealStatesAmericaReligionI BelievePresidentChurchIssuesResponsibleCatholicI Believe InCampaignsQuarters Author:John F. Kennedy
“Religions contradict one another-on small matters, such as whether we should put on a hat or take one off on entering a house of worship, or whether we should eat beef and eschew pork or the other way around, all the way to the most central issues, such as whether there are no gods, one God, or many gods.” WayShouldMatterReligionHouseReligiousIssuesWorshipHatsEnteringBeefPorkHouses Of Worship Book:Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.” PeopleLifeHandsTruthPoliticalReligionSpiritualityPoliticsBeliefInspiringOpinionCasesIssuesTakenAuthorityConvictionThoughtfulExaminationBrassSecond HandReligion And PoliticsQuestioning BeliefsReligion Politics Author:Mark Twain