“Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed religious allegiance to a foreign authority in the person of the Pope, their political and patriotic allegiance must necessarily be suspect.” PersonsPoliticalReligiousAuthorityCatholicSuspectsPatrioticLoyalPopeAllegianceBattlefieldsObjectionsEmancipationBritish History Author:Linda Colley
“The Chief Justice's ... main point seemed to be that the references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance aren't really religious and therefore are not that important - something I would think would offend Christians who think it should stay because it is religious and does matter. Too many Christians appear to be desperate to shore up their failing confidence in their own religious beliefs by having the government officially endorse those beliefs.” ThinkingShouldDoeImportantMatterGovernmentChristianBeliefReligiousJusticeFailingAtheismPositive AtheismChiefsDesperateShorePledgeAllegianceReligious BeliefPledge Of AllegianceChief Justice Author:Ed Buckner
“The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.” BeliefReligiousAtheismConflictMethodFixedMinimumAllegianceReligious Conflict Book:James and Dewey on Belief and Experience Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience
“There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past. It is very suspicious of freedom, uncomfortable with diversity hostile to science, unfriendly to reason, contemptuous of personal autonomy. It sees America as a religious nation. It views patriotism as allegiance to God. It secretly adores coercion and conformity. Despite our constitution, despite the legacy of the Enlightenment, it appeals to millions of Americans and threatens our freedom.” TwoReasonAmericaPastFatherNationsReligiousViewsVisionMillionsAtheismDiversityEnlightenmentRootsConstitutionDespiteAppealsLegacyUncomfortableConformityAdoreFoundingHostileAutonomySuspiciousCoercionAllegianceOur Founding FathersPuritanHarshnessUnfriendlyContemptuous Author:Sherwin Wine
“As the United States drifts from its Judeo-Christian foundation and as the state becomes ever more pervasive in American life, government could ultimately insist on full allegiance from the people, an allegiance belonging only to God.” PeopleStatesGovernmentChristianReligiousUnitedUnited StatesFoundationBelongingAllegianceAmerican Life Author:H. Wayne House
“Justice William Brennan stated that the phrase 'under God' in our Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional because it no longer has a religious purpose or meaning.” ChristianPurposeReligiousJusticePhrasesPledgeAllegiancePledge Of Allegiance Author:Mathew Staver