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“The founders of that ancient empire were robbers and women stealers, and made laws favoring monogamy in consequence of the scarcity of women among them, and hence this monogamic system which now prevails throughout all Christendom, and which has been so fruitful a source of prostitution and whoredom throughout all the Christian monogamic cities of the Old and New World, until rottenness and decay are at the root of their institutions both national and religious.”

Source: Journal of Discourses

“If you're a fan of American roots music, you won't want to miss 'Awake My Soul--The Story of the Sacred Harp.' Filmmakers Matt and Erica Hinton have done a fine job capturing the history, sound and spirit of this unusual but compelling art form that, trust me, you don't have to be religious to appreciate.”

Ifs Want Art Soul Done Stories Jobs Form Spirit Sound Religious Fans Missing Fine Appreciate Roots Sacred My Soul Awake Filmmaker Unusual Compelling Trust Me Harps

Author:Eric Zorn

“Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?”

“In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious formulation. Religious fundamentalists in the United States have waged a campaign against secular humanism, claiming that it is a rival "religion" and seeking to root it out from American public life. Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.”

“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.”

“All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.”

Mind Humans Political Religious Roots Intense Human Mind Autonomy Innate Conservatism

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil”

Way Evil Religious Roots Just One Judaism

Book:Hitch 22: A Memoir

Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir

“It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few.”

“However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.”

Thinking Values Religious Economic Majors Economics Roots Fundamentals Mere Deeper Opposition Ecology

Book:Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker

Source: Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker

“That Solidarity was a religious movement no one, least of all the Soviets, can deny. In November 1981, Pravda denounced 'religious fanaticism' as a grave challenge to socialism; failure to contain it, Pravda said, was at the root of the problems in Poland.”

Said Problem Christian Challenges Religious Movement Roots Deny Graves Socialism Solidarity Fanaticism November Poland

Book:God and Government

Source: God and Government

“Many journalists seem to desire 'liberation' from Christian roots.”

Seems Christian Desire Religious Roots Liberation Journalist

Author:Marvin Olasky

“The most rapid way to change a root thought, or sponsoring idea, is to reverse the thought-word-deed process. Do the deed that you want to have the new thought about. Then say the words that you want to have your new thought about. Do this often enough and you'll train the mind to think a new way.”

Thinking Way Want Inspirational Mind Ideas Enough Process Religious Roots Train Deeds New Ways Reverse Rapids New Thought Conversations With God

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“But we must not forget, this ritual expressed, certain ideas which lie at the very root of true religion, the fellowship of the worshippers with one another in their fellowship with the deity, and the consecration of the bonds of kinship as the type of all right ethical relations between man and man.”

Men Ideas Lying Certain Religious Forget Type Roots Relation Ethical Ritual Deities Fellowship Kinship True Religion Worshippers Consecration

Author:William Robertson Smith

“I pray the Pope [Francis] can use his moral authority to inspire true religious freedom, and bring us closer to the day when freedom can finally take root on the island country; because only then will the people of Cuba prosper and have the opportunity to live out God's plan.”

People Country Use Opportunity Religious Moral Plans Inspire Praying Authority Roots Islands Pope I Pray Cuba Religious Freedom God's Plan Moral Authority

Author:Marco Rubio