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“From the standpoint of freedom of speech and the press, it is enough to point out that the state has no legitimate interest in protecting any or all religions from views distasteful to them... It is not the business of government to suppress real or imagined attacks upon a particular religious doctrine.”

Real States Enough Government Interest Religious Views Liberty Particular Speech Presses Doctrine Freedom Of Speech Standpoint Distasteful

Author:Tom C. Clark

“The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.”

Evil Religious Christianity Doctrine Creeds Infant Pagan Atrocities Damnation

Author:William Edward Hartpole Lecky

“I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.”

Doe Reason Religion Faith Religious Morality Conflict Motherhood Doctrine Appeals Rejects Metaphysics

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.”

Has Beens Spirituality Goal Religious Compassion Keys Easier Enlightenment Tests Doctrine Conformity Setting Goals Stressed Religious Life

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Today Force Religious Accepting Horse Loyalty Doctrine Host Comprehension Carts Religious Life Trust And Loyalty

Author:Karen Armstrong

“One of the world’s great religions — which has more than 1.4 billion adherents — somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine.”

World Religious Billions Doctrine Genocide Sanctions

Author:Steven Emerson

“If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard doctrinal positions. We end up merely finding ammunition for what we already believe. We become so spiritually proud, so convinced of our own positions, that the Spirit is hindered in helping us to grow in the things of God.”

“The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.”

May Littles Political Differences Religious Taught Depends Method Doctrine Being True Propaganda Employed Effectiveness Pernicious True Or False

Book:Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

“We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in merely making that distinction between religion and its doctrine-elements, have we not already relegated the latter to an external and subordinate position? Have we not asserted that "religion itself" has some other essence or constitution than mere idea or thought?”

Ideas Care Religious Position Theory Elements Essence Constitution Mere Driven Doctrine Distinction Latter Subordinates

Author:William Ernest Hocking

“To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some psycho-physical theory connecting spiritual values in general with determinate sorts of physiological change. Otherwise none of our thoughts and feelings, not even our scientific doctrines, not even our dis -beliefs, could retain any value as revelations of the truth, for every one of them without exception flows from the state of their possessor's body at the time.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this should also present what they believe are public reasons for their argument. So their opinion is no longer just that of one particular party, but an opinion that all members of a society might reasonably agree to, not necessarily that they would agree to. What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines.”

“There are two kinds of comprehensive doctrines, religious and secular. Those of religious faith will say I give a veiled argument for secularism, and the latter will say I give a veiled argument for religion. I deny both. Each side presumes the basic ideas of constitutional democracy, so my suggestion is that we can make our political arguments in terms of public reason. Then we stand on common ground. That's how we can understand each other and cooperate.”

“Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not believed by one or more individuals. Spirituality is the science of metaphysics.”

Philosophy Body Spiritual Spirit Spirituality Individual Religious Deals Doctrine Metaphysics Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government. Apart from constitutional law and religious doctrine, there is a sense that tells us it's wrong to presume to speak for God or to claim God's sanction of our particular legislation and his rejection of all other positions. Most of us are offended when we see religion being trivialized by its appearance in political throw-away pamphlets.”

“The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error.”

Firsts Has Beens Religious Atheism Duty Ought Stronger Errors Positive Atheism Doctrine Tolerate Disguise Sects Few Words Bigots Rhetorical Dissension

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.”

Men Form Religious Common Atheism Doctrine Like Me Terrified Peril Common Man

Book:The World Is My Home: A Memoir

Source: The World Is My Home: A Memoir

“The establishment of religious freedom was no less momentous an achievement than the clearing of the great forest or the winning of independence, for the twin doctrines of separation of church and state and liberty of individual conscience are the marrow of our democracy, if not indeed America's most magnificent contribution to the freeing of Western man.”

“Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.”

States Religious Criminals Doctrine Code Adopted

Book:Crime: Its Cause and Treatment

Source: Crime: Its Cause and Treatment

“Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of Christian doctrine? . . . these religious debates - questions of the nature of God, or of Christ - simultaneously bear social and political implications that are crucial to the development of Christianity as an institutional religion. In simplest terms, ideas which bear implications contrary to that development come to be labeled as 'heresy'; ideas which implicitly support it become 'orthodox.'”

“Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.”

Source: The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]

“The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine.”

Source: Mein Kampf

“If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?”

People Ifs Religious Bears Doctrine Witness Dependent

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects; it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.”

Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

“When a minister or a clergyman takes seriously unfashionable Christian doctrines which condemn sex outside marriage, homosexuality, abortion, and feminism, and injects his views into the political debate, he is immediately denounced as a 'reactionary.'”

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Book:Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty

Source: Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty

“"Who are we to say what is right and what is wrong?" is the common refrain under the doctrine of pure pluralism. Clearly, society cannot long survive if this principle is pushed to its logical conclusion and everyone is free to write his own laws.”

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Book:Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty

Source: Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty

“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

“... 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

“Truth is not over there, wherever over there is. Truth is neither housed in religious rituals nor secret doctrines, nor in a guru's touch or beatific smile, nor in exotic locations or ancient temples. Truth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present.”

Doe Religious Views Secret Truth Is Ancient Doctrine Temples Ritual Lacking Location Guru Exotic Religious Rituals

Author:Adyashanti

“Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church.... Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.”

Ifs Facts Christian Term Church Religious Expression Harmony Catholic Remains Historical Socialism Doctrine Contradiction Dogma Catholic Church Implying Historical Facts

Author:Pope Pius XI

“Who can estimate the misery that has been caused by this infamous doctrine of eternal punishment? Think of the lives it has blighted-of the tears it has caused-of the agony it has produced. Think of the millions who have been driven to insanity by this most terrible of dogmas. This doctrine renters God the basest and most cruel being in the universe. ... There is nothing more degrading than to worship such a god.”

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Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered, the harm caused, especially to children, by the pernicious doctrine of original sin, a case could be made for saying that the world would have been better off without Christianity.”

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