“Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal antireligionism which animated so much of nineteenth-century Continental liberalism. ... What distinguishes the liberal from the conservative here is that, however profound his own spiritual beliefs, he will never regard himself as entitled to impose them on others and that for him the spiritual and the temporal are different sphere which ought not to be confused.” I CanDifferentSpiritualReligionBeliefCenturyRevolutionOughtRespectRegardProfoundConservativeConfusedLiberalismSpheresEntitledQuarrelsAnimatedNineteenth CenturyMilitantRationalismFrench RevolutionContinentalSpiritual Beliefs Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.” HumansImportantScienceReligionCommonAtheismHumilityRevolutionConvictionFeaturesArroganceCosmosPedestalScientific Revolution Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the other comes up. When the classic religions decayed, communistic agitation rose in Athens (430 B.C.), and revolution began in Rome (133 B.C.); when these movements failed, resurrection faiths succeeded, culminating in Christianity; when, in our eighteenth century, Christian belief weakened, communism reappeared. In this perspective the future of religion is secure.” WellsChristianReligionBeliefHeavenChristianityCenturyMovementRevolutionPerspectiveRoseCome UpSecureCommunismClassicRomeResurrectionUtopiaBucketsAgitationAthens Author:Will Durant
“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.” GodGovernmentReligionReligiousChristianityPrinciplesRevolutionHighestGloryBibleIndependentConnectedFoundersGodlyOur Founding FathersUs HistoryAmerican RevolutionDeclaration Of IndependenceFounding Fathers ChristianUs Founding FathersFounding Fathers Of AmericaFounding AmericaAmerican Founding FathersChristianity From Founding FathersChristian FatherChristian HeritageRevolution Founding FathersChristian PatrioticOne Nation Under GodGod And CountryRevival In AmericaChristianity And Government Author:John Quincy Adams
“To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.” MenGivingReligionReligiousMinutesTheoryRevolutionSickPositive AtheismWheelsCosmosRebelliousSpinningDizzy Author:H. L. Mencken
“Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely minute part of a globe which itself is only an imperceptible point in the immense whole, believes that the universe is made for himself.” MenBelieveMadeWholeReligionUniverseSunSkyMinutesPlanetsRevolutionWasteImmenseGlobesOrbit Author:Baron d'Holbach