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“What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its own affairs, being insidiously eroded.”

Years States Christian Church Religious United United States Rights Affair

Author:Bruce L. Shelley

“The Nazi regime intended eventually to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early Germanic gods and the new paganism of the Nazi extremists.”

Ifs Christian Religious Christianity Germany Substitutes Regimes Nazi Paganism Extremist

Book:The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

Source: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

“... demanding a separation between church and state isn't enough; the churches' basic doctrines must be changed, with homophobia written out forever.”

States Enough Christian Church Religious Forever Written Changed Separation Doctrine Church And State Homophobia Separation Between Church And State

Author:Michelangelo Signorile

“The ACLU is not just religiously neutral, but staunchly anti-religious. Particularly, anti-Christian.”

Christian Religious Anti Religious Anti Christian

Author:F. LaGard Smith

“If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.”

Ifs Christian Form Hate Religious Expression Censorship

Author:F. LaGard Smith

“Thanks in large measure to the ACLU, the belief that there is a wall of separation between faith and state, not just church and state, is endemic. The exercise of religious faith in the public square is not prohibited; only the federal imposition of a particular faith. Hardly anyone any longer knows the difference.”

Knows States Christian Belief Differences Church Religious Particular Wall Exercise Separation Thanks Squares Religious Faith Church And State Imposition

Author:F. LaGard Smith

“The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.”

School Christian Religious Policy Various Collections Bias Revealing Public School Religious Freedom Anti Religious

Author:F. LaGard Smith

“In our generation there is no agreed-upon framework. All issues are up for grabs. Morality no longer has any broad-based theology upon which to rest its case. We are no longer a 'Christian nation,' not even a 'Judeo-Christian culture.'”

Christian Culture Nations Religious Cases Issues Generations Morality Theology Broads Framework Our Generation Christian Nation

Author:F. LaGard Smith

“The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it is to avoid all mention of it. By this sort of logic, nudism is the best compromise among different styles of dress. The secularist version of 'pluralism' amounts to theological nudism.”

Way Should Different States Christian Religious Style Amount Logic Dresses Notion Best Way Versions Compromise Theological Prevailing Different Styles Pluralism

Author:Joseph Sobran

“If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.”

Ifs Men Would Be Christian Religious Century Forgotten Repeats Traits Principal Precise 20th Century Pithy

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The overwhelming majority of social scientists were irreligious or even anti-religious. This led them to believe that religion was a disappearing and unimportant factor in human affairs.”

Believe Humans Christian Social Religious Scientist Majority Affair Disappear Factors Overwhelming Unimportant Anti Religious

Author:Rodney Stark

“Religion in the public square is becoming an endangered species.”

Christian Religious Becoming Species Squares Endangered Species

Author:Mathew Staver

“Religious expression must at least be afforded an equal playing field. Currently, the playing field is not level. Religious expression and practices are treated as second class forms of speech and singled out for discrimination.”

Christian Form Religious Levels Class Practice Fields Expression Equal Speech Discrimination Treated Playing Fields

Author:Mathew Staver

“The Supreme Court refuses to abandon its convoluted Lemon test. The Lemon test has created havoc, misunderstanding, and hostility toward religion.”

Christian Religious Tests Court Refuse Supreme Abandon Supreme Court Misunderstanding Hostility Lemons Havoc Convoluted

Author:Mathew Staver

“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.”

Christian Purpose Religious Justice Phrases Pledge Allegiance Pledge Of Allegiance

Author:Mathew Staver

“This determined bias against religion, especially Christianity, is clearly evident when viewed against the religious heritage of American culture as revealed in the Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 U.S. 452. 1892.”

States Christian Culture Church Religious United Christianity United States Holy Determined Heritage Bias Evident American Culture Trinity Against Religion Holy Trinity

Author:Mathew Staver

“Many school administrators are so cautious that they have erroneously erased all traces of religion. Some have run roughshod over teachers. Others have attempted to squelch all discussion of religion.”

Running School Christian Religious Teacher Discussion Cautious Administrators

Author:Mathew Staver

“Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.”

Christian America Religious Television Islands Prime Prime Time

Author:Ben Stein

“The rise of secularism has brought about an increase in hostility toward things religious.”

Christian Religious Increase Hostility Secularism

Author:Jon Stewart

“I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical invocation of metaphors like the ' wall of separation,' a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution.”

Thinking Christian Found Religious Wall Areas Tasks Constitution Court Metaphor Separation Phrases Invocation

Author:Potter Stewart

“The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.”

Firsts Whole Christian Religious Congress Protection Amendments First Amendment

Author:Joseph Story

“God has virtually been made an illegal subject in that state institution most devoted to the shaping of the minds and values of our people - the public schools.”

People Mind Made States School Christian Values Religious Subjects Institutions Illegal Devoted Public School

Author:Pat Swindall

“That such a perspective of the Declaration's 'Creator God' should sound so foreign and controversial to people today is a tragic and striking sign of how far we are removed from the thinking of our colonial fathers.”

People Thinking Should Today Christian Father Sound Religious Perspective Creator Tragic Declaration Controversial Creator God

Author:Pat Swindall

“The First Amendment is now being used by the secularists of our day as a cattle prod to herd conservative religious people out of the public life of the nation and into, as others have put it, a religious ghetto.”

People Firsts Christian Used Nations Religious Conservative Amendments First Amendment Herds Public Life Ghetto Cattle

Author:Pat Swindall

“The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.”

Firsts States Christian Religious Effects Amendments First Amendment Distortion Excluded

Author:Pat Swindall

“Religious people, in the name of the Constitution, are increasingly being shoved to the back of the social bus.”

People Christian Names Social Religious Constitution Bus

Author:Pat Swindall

“Religious people are now finding that the First Amendment is being used to herd them into a social ghetto, separated and walled off from public participation.”

People Firsts Christian Used Social Religious Findings Amendments Participation First Amendment Herds Ghetto

Author:Pat Swindall

“Our problem in America is not with atheists or the pagans who are consistent with their unbelief, but with believers who are inconsistent with their belief.”

Problem Christian America Belief Religious Atheist Believer Consistent Pagan Unbelief Inconsistent

Author:Randall Terry

“I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream, to marginalize it and make it look like a product of 'fringe' groups.”

Thinking Looks Country Christian Religious Christianity Groups Media Products Tendencies Our Country Establishment Mainstream Hostility Fringe

Book:Book burning

Source: Book burning

“In America most orthodox Christians become defensive or testy when they are asked even to break into a sweat. Most of our efforts up until now have been more symbolic than anything else. We are great at holding conventions, gathering for strategy meetings and seminars, holding congresses on evangelism. But where are the people to run our own antidefamation league?”

People Has Beens Running Christian America Religious Effort Break Strategy Meetings Congress League Orthodox Sweat Conventions Gathering Symbolic Evangelism Orthodox Christian Seminars

Book:Book burning

Source: Book burning

“Nowhere have the forces of intolerance been displayed less tolerantly than in the area of religious speech and practice.”

Christian Force Religious Practice Speech Areas Intolerance

Book:The things that matter most

Source: The things that matter most

“To suggest that a person's strongly held religious view is less tolerant than a strongly held antireligious view is morally, intellectually, and politically inconsistent and incorrect.”

Persons Christian Religious Views Inconsistent Religious Views

Book:The things that matter most

Source: The things that matter most

“With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian Michael Novak calls 'Christophobia .' Traditional Christians and Jews are the new counterculture - aliens in a land their forefathers' beliefs and values established and built.”

“I think the philosophy in our public schools, and many other institutions today, is that a dose of God is more hazardous to your health than a dose of herpes or drugs.”

Thinking Philosophy Today School Christian Religious Drug Institutions Public School Dose Herpes

Author:Cal Thomas

“It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country, seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence.”

Country Christian Religious Effort Liberty Influence Unions Seeking Civil Liberties Lobotomy

Author:Cal Thomas

“There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.”

Men World Soul Country Christian America Religious Greater Influence

Book:American Institutions

Source: American Institutions

“Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.”

May Able Christian Religious Democracy Despotism

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“American Christians have been woefully silent on important issues. I am an American citizens now, and I love this country, but I see symptoms in the United States that I saw in Austria in 1938 when the Nazi Germans were terrorizing Europe.”

Has Beens Important Country States Christian Religious United United States Issues Saws Citizens Europe Silent Nazi Symptoms American Citizens Important Issues Austria

Author:Maria von Trapp

“Are public school textbooks biased? Are they censored? The answer to both is yes. And the nature of the bias is clear: Religion, traditional family values, and conservative political and economic positions have been reliably excluded from children's textbooks.”

“In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions, and some history. None of the books covering grades 1 through 4 contain one word referring to any religious activity in contemporary American life.”

Children Book Christian Community Religious Economic Activity Ordinary Contemporary Grades Introducing Family Life One Word Covering Transactions Referring American Life

Author:Paul Vitz

“Religious concepts and vocabulary are certainly censored in these textbooks.”

Christian Religious Concepts Vocabulary Textbooks Censored

Author:Paul Vitz

“There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.”

Book Christian Religious Denial Characteristics Theme Dominant Protestants American Life Religious Life

Author:Paul Vitz

“School textbooks have almost completely excised any reference to America's true religious heritage.”

School Christian America Religious Heritage Textbooks

Author:Paul Vitz

“Religion is rarely mentioned in current prime-time dramas or sitcoms that supposedly reflect the way we live now.”

Way Christian Religious Drama Currents Prime Sitcom Prime Time

Author:Dan Wakefield

“I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.”

Believe Book Country Christian Spirit I Believe Realizing Religious Genius Our Country Savior Good Book

Author:Earl Warren

“In the 1980s... it was a liberal philosophy of government that changed the rules to suit its own political ends. We were forfeiting our freedoms to conform to a humanistic philosophy that was patently antireligious.”

Ends Philosophy Government Christian Political Religious Changed Suits Conform Humanistic

Book:The courage of a conservative

Source: The courage of a conservative

“Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.”

Has Beens Christian Religious Speech Censorship Textbooks History Textbooks

Author:James G. Watt

“I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.”

Real Christian Belief Religious Struggle Records Position Environmental Driven Secretary Interiors

Author:James G. Watt

“Norman Lear considers almost any Christian who speaks up for and acts on his or her faith to be 'dangerous.'”

Christian Speak Religious Dangerous Lear

Book:Don Wildmon: the man the networks love to hate

Source: Don Wildmon: the man the networks love to hate

“Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie if the black community found it to be highly disparaging? No way. You better believe these executives would also think long and hard before they released a movie offensive to American Indians, Muslims homosexuals or virtually any affinity group. Yet, to most movie industries a film which offends millions of Christians is fine and dandy.”

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