“Every new movement or group of people who seek to explore awareness is considered a cult. The United States was founded by several cults. They felt that Protestantism had become much too lax, so they came to America and set up a hard line religious cult.” PeopleHardStatesAmericaFeltReligiousLinesUnitedUnited StatesGroupsAwarenessMovementBuddhismCultRamaProtestantismLaxReligious Cults Author:Frederick Lenz
“I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.” ThinkingI CanCountryReligiousLinesGreaterAtheismPositive AtheismDisasterVotersDivides Author:Al Smith
“The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.” FirstsHardReligiousLinesAtheismParticularPositive AtheismSquaresPropositionsEmphasisPreferenceMonumentGraphic Author:John Paul Stevens
“Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't we humanists sometimes claim that there is a common thread of humanistic values running through history across cultural and religious lines?” IfsDoeSometimesRunningReligionValuesCultureReligiousLinesCommonShareMoralityProveClaimsSupremeThreadHumanisticCommon Threads Book:Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist Source: Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
“In 1967, in DeKalb v. DeSpain, a court (255 F.Supp. 655. N.D.Ill. 1966.) took a 4-line nursery rhyme used by a K-5 kindergarten class and declared the nursery rhyme unconstitutional. The court explained that although the word 'God' was not contained in this nursery rhyme, if someone were to hear the rhyme, he might think that it was talking about God - and that would be unconstitutional!” IfsThinkingMightWould BeChristianUsedReligiousLinesTalkingClassCourtIllRhymeNurseryKindergartenUnconstitutionalNursery Rhymes Author:David Barton
“Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian Time Lines of the Ancient World ... This flagrant display of religious bigotry and discrimination in a book officially sponsored by the Smithsonian is intellectually and academically dishonest.” WorldBookChristianJesusChristReligiousLinesWorstExampleJesus ChristTablesAncientCoffeeDiscriminationBigotryContemptDisplayEntitledPublicationAncient WorldReligious BigotrySmithsonian Author:Tim LaHaye
“The bottom line is not money but some sort of demonic compulsion that drives these people to lash out against Jesus Christ, against Christians, and against anyone who holds to a sincere belief in God, in spite of the fact that it is going to cost them tens of millions of dollars to do it. They are driven to 'make a statement' regardless of the consequences.” PeopleFactsChristianJesusBeliefChristReligiousLinesMillionsCostConsequenceJesus ChristDollarsBottomDrivenStatementsSpiteSincereBottom LineCompulsionBelief In GodLashesDemonic Author:Michael Medved
“...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.” LifeMayDesireHeavenReligiousLinesDarkRaceHellAngelHorseLongingDenyDesperateGamblingAfterlifeMultitudesGermsSecuredTidyFresh StartHabitatFrictionFinish LineUnpredictabilityDark Horse Book:Skinny Legs and All Source: Skinny Legs and All