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“What the media wants and what the media demands of Christians is very simply this: your silence.”

Want Christian Religious Silence Media Demand

“Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.”

Stills Action Christian Political Religious Direct Theology Political Action

“With each passing year, people of faith grow increasingly distressed by the hostility of public institutions toward religious expression. We have witnessed the steady erosion of the time-honored rights of religious Americans - both as individuals and as communities - to practice what they believe in the public square.”

People Years Believe Christian Individual Grows Community Religious Practice Rights Expression Institutions Passing Passings Squares Steady Honored Hostility Erosion

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.”

Christian Religious Bigotry Classroom Confined

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“Each new lawsuit seeks to expand the size of the 'religion-free zone' in the public square.”

Christian Religious Size Zone Squares Lawsuit

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“People of faith find themselves marginalized and ridiculed. In a nation where our coins carry the motto, 'In God We Trust...'”

People Christian Nations Religious Coins Motto Marginalized God We Trust

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.”

Christian Law Political Culture Reading Religious Borders Censorship Bias Quoting Political Culture

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“Sometimes the cultures phobia of religion borders on the absurd.”

Sometimes Christian Culture Religious Absurd Borders Phobia

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.”

Christian Religious Teacher Students Display Prosecutor Jurors

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“Freedom of religion has been replaced by freedom from religion.”

Has Beens Christian Religious Replaced Freedom Of Religion

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the entire society. The message they currently communicate is harsh and unambiguous: religion is offensive and should be kept out of public view.”

Should School Christian Culture Religious Views Messages Library Communicate Tolerance Tone Offensive Harsh Discourse Courtroom Public Discourse

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“The zealous disdain for religion in American jurisprudence amounts to intolerance. Keith Fournier of the American Center for Law and Justice concludes that 'the ones not being tolerated are religious people who dare make any kind of religious reference or take any kind of religious posture outside the private arena.”

People Kind Christian Law Religious Justice Amount Dare Intolerance Arena Posture Disdain Keith Zealous Law And Justice Jurisprudence

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to 'riots, terrorism - and death.'”

May Christian Religious Presses Terrorism Reports Chicago Reporters Riot Sharon

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?”

Ifs Christian Religious Behinds Liberty Window Glasses Sunday Religious Liberty Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.”

People Christian America Religious Speech Constitution Freedom Of Speech

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.”

Christian Values Religious Example Bigotry Classroom Hostility Confined Religious Values

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.”

Christian Religious Tolerance Officials Establishment Transformed Shields Clauses Religious Tolerance Establishment Clause

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“In 1962, the Supreme Court banned organized prayer from public schools. Since then, federal, state, and local courts and officials, including public school administrators, have joined in a nationwide search and destroy mission for student religious practices.”

“In the eyes of the Associated Press, American Christianity, which springs from the Protestant Reformation, is fundamentalist. And Christian Fundamentalists, radical Muslims, Hindu extremists, and fanatical Zionists are all the same - bloodthirsty lunatics.”

Eye Christian Religious Christianity Spring Presses Radical Reformation Extremist Protestants Fundamentalist Zionist Protestant Reformation

Book:The Turning Tide

Source: The Turning Tide

“It is important for people to recognize that those who are working for the dissolution of our society have a spiritual agenda. They are not merely attempting to dismantle the historic cultural values of this nation and move us toward a homogenized world. They also want to destroy Christianity and Bible-based religion. It is a clear part of their agenda and they have already moved a long way in that direction.”

People World Way Want Long Important Christian Spiritual Moving Values Nations Religious Christianity Clear Moved Our Society Agendas Historic Long Way Attempting Dissolution

Author:Pat Robertson

“The signs of the antichrist spirit are clear. They emerge in this fashion: A significant minority then an actual majority, of the people in a society begin to throw off the restraints of history, then the restraints of written law, then accepted standards of morality, then established religion, and, finally God Himself.”

People Christian Law Spirit Religious Clear Written Fashion Morality Standards Majority Accepted Significant Minorities Restraint Antichrist

Book:The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1

Source: The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1

“The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.”

Matter Christian Lasts Film Faces Christ Religious No Matter What Temptation Slap Defenders Slap In The Face

Author:Mickey Rooney

“A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.”

Men Needs Christian Community Religious Abandoned Ignored Rapids

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Concerning the press and politicians, the hatred for all such evangelical groups is not because of their real or fancied blunders but because they have reintroduced biblical morality into politics.”

Real Christian Religious Groups Politician Morality Hatred Presses Biblical Evangelical Blunders

Author:R.J. Rushdoony

“The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.”

Art Christian Culture Religious Christianity Position Western Substitutes Elevation Western Culture

Book:The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

Source: The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

“Christendom and heathendom now stand face to face... At bottom is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and the nature of an and the ultimate nature of the universe; it is a war of dogma.”

War Christian Faces Universe Religious Ultimate Bottom Violent Dogma Quarrels Face To Face Christendom

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage.”

Christian Past Religious Generations Silent Deny Neglect Heritage Our Past Christian Heritage

Book:Enough is Enough

Source: Enough is Enough

“Bashing the Religious Right has become an acceptable political sport.”

Christian Political Sports Religious Acceptable

Book:Enough is Enough: A Call to Christian Involvement

Source: Enough is Enough: A Call to Christian Involvement

“In America, about the only thing censored today is Christianity, the same Christianity that was the driving force behind the building of this great nation.”

Today Christian America Force Nations Religious Behinds Christianity Building Driving Great Nations Driving Force Censored

Book:Enough is Enough

Source: Enough is Enough

“Beginning in 1962... the courts began to systematically secularize the nation, reflecting its view that God and the Scripture had no place in the public arena.”

Christian Nations Religious Views Court Scripture Arena Reflecting

Book:Enough is Enough: A Call to Christian Involvement

Source: Enough is Enough: A Call to Christian Involvement

“As our culture has become increasingly hostile to Christianity, it has become correspondingly open to wickedness.”

Christian Culture Religious Christianity Hostile Wickedness

Book:Enough is Enough: A Call to Christian Involvement

Source: Enough is Enough: A Call to Christian Involvement

“Those who are anti-God and anti-Christian in America have infiltrated the highest levels of the educational establishment. They have a philosophical commitment to eliminating any vestige of biblical Christianity from American thought and life. They are well-positioned, well-funded and well-connected. They are a very small minority in America, yet their level of commitment is rarely matched among Christians.”

Wells Christian America Religious Levels Christianity Highest Commitment Philosophical Educational Connected Minorities Establishment Biblical Eliminating Matched Anti Christian Anti God

Book:Enough is Enough: A Call to Christian Involvement

Source: Enough is Enough: A Call to Christian Involvement

“A very small number of non-Christians, including those with radical anti-Christian agendas, have been able to control and manipulate the civil politics of America with little or no opposition.”

Littles Has Beens Able Christian America Religious Numbers Including Radical Opposition Agendas Manipulate Small Numbers Anti Christian

Book:Enough is Enough

Source: Enough is Enough

“Today the separation of church and state is America is used to silence the church... The way the concept is used today is totally reversed from the original intent... It is used today as a false political dictum in order to restrict the influence of Christian ideas... To have suggested the state separated from religion and religious influence would have amazed the Founding Fathers.”

“Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.”

World Christian Religious Results Numbers Christianity Posts Our Society Emphasis Consensus Ethos

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“Today the separation of church and state in America is used to silence the church. When Christians speak out on issues, the hue and cry from the humanist state and media is that Christians, an all religions, are prohibited from speaking since there is a separation of church and state.”

States Today Christian America Used Speak Church Religious Silence Issues Media Cry Separation Humanist Church And State Separation Of Church And State Speaks Out Hue

Book:The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west

Source: The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west

“The modern concept of separation is an argument for a total separation of religion from the state. The consequence of the acceptance of the doctrine leads to the removal of religion as an influence in civil government.”

States Government Christian Religious Influence Modern Acceptance Concepts Consequence Argument Separation Doctrine Removal

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“This shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious liberty.”

Christian Law Religious Liberty Bases Constitution Restraint Religious Liberty

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“The overall way of thinking in the United States has shifted away from basic Biblical values, and the media share in the responsibility for this change.”

Thinking Way States Christian Values Religious United Responsibility United States Share Media Biblical Way Of Thinking

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“In the 20th century, evangelical Christians in America have naively accepted the role assigned to us by an anti-religious, anti-Christian consensus in our society. We have been relegated to a cultural backwater, where we are meant to paddle around content in the knowledge that we are merely allowed to exist.”

Has Beens Christian America Religious Roles Century Accepted Our Society 20th Century Consensus Evangelical Anti Religious Anti Christian

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“There is a sad myth going around today - the myth of neutrality. According to this myth, the secular world gives every point of view an equal chance to be heard. And it works fairly well - unless you are a Christian.”

World Giving Wells Today Christian Religious Chance Views Heard Equal Myth Point Of View Secular Neutrality

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.”

Happens Christian Religious Views Principles Issues One Thing Media Firm Exception

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“The arbitrary division between church and state... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast body of citizens who represent those with religious convictions.”

States Body Christian Used Church Religious Opinion Citizens Conviction Division Arbitrary Church And State Rallying Rallying Point

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“The cruelest form of death, I have no doubt, is not physical death. Rather it is that public death which comes from the killing of ideas about God.”

Ideas Christian Form Religious Doubt Killing No Doubt

Author:James V. Schall

“Even though our society is increasingly pluralistic, we must ensure an equal playing field rather than a religiously cleansed arena where people of faith are no longer welcome.”

People Christian Religious Fields Equal Welcome Our Society Arena Playing Fields

Author:Jay Sekulow

“The term religious cleansing is an accurate and effective way of expressing the current hostility and bigotry toward all civic expressions of religion... these religious cleansers use political and legal means of containment. They are America's new anti-faith bigots.”

Way Mean Use Christian America Political Term Religious Expression Currents Bigotry Accurate Hostility Civics Cleansing Bigots Containment

Author:Jay Sekulow

“The way I understand it is the communists are in, the atheists are in, the agnostics are in, but religion is out.”

Way Christian Religious Atheist Communist

Author:Jay Sekulow

“The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.”

Home Seems School Christian Church Religious Four Influence Media Wall Court Determined Erase Public Life Four Walls

Author:Bruce L. Shelley

“Fortunately, Judge Richey's decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is an example of how far the purge of Christian values has gone in America.”

Christian America Values Religious Decision Gone Example Judging Court Supreme Supreme Court Christian Values

Author:Bruce L. Shelley

“Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because it was so clearly a religiously inspired movement that entered the public arena and made a major difference in American life.”

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