“What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.” GovernmentNationsReligiousVirtueRightsCitizensPortionsIndulgenceTolerationReligious Rights Author:Richard Mentor Johnson
“And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.” PeopleReligiousMutualSuperstitionsIndulgenceTheologicalTolerationRancor Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged) Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: The Modern Library Collection (Complete and Unabridged)
“That the religious right completely took over the word Christian is a given. At one time, phrases such as Christian charity and Christian tolerance were used to denote kindness and compassion. To perform a "Christian" act meant an act of giving, of acceptance, of toleration. Now, Christian is invariably linked to right-wing conservative political thought -- Christian nation, Christian morality, Christian values, Christian family.” GivingReasonChristianPoliticalUsedReligionValuesGivenNationsReligiousFreedomCompassionLibertyKindnessAcceptanceMoralityWingsCharityConservativeTolerancePhrasesOne TimeAgnosticLinkedRight WingKindness And CompassionTolerationChristian NationChristian FamilyChristian MoralityChristian ValuesConservative Political Author:Peter McWilliams
“Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick - and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn't.” ChristianPoliticalReligiousEconomicCenturyMilitarySticksJewBuddhistBrotherhoodIntolerancePreachingOppressedPaganJehovahTolerationReligious IntoleranceEconomic Power Author:Isaac Bonewits
“Toleration made the world anti-Christian.” WorldMadeChristianReligiousTolerationAnti Christian Author:John Cotton
“If once in America the question of religious toleration was raised in defense of nonbelievers who dissented from religious orthodoxy, today it is raised by believers who feel excluded from a predominantly secular public world.” IfsWorldFeelsTodayChristianAmericaReligiousRaisedDefenseBelieverSecularOrthodoxyExcludedToleration Author:Alan Wolfe