The Church terrifieth with threats of exile and dungeons; and she, who of old gained men’s faith in spite of exile and prison, now brings them to believe in her by compulsion… She, who was propagated by hunted priests, now hunts priests in her turn…
Church Quotes
The loathsome combination of Church and State.
The American idea is a free church in a free state, and a free and unsectarian public school in every ward and every village with its door wide open to children of all races and every creed.
I have followed (the Church) in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never allowed the Creed to be interfered with. It is fifteen hundred years since it was formulated, but every suggestion for its amendment, every logical criticism, or attack on it, has been rejected. The […]
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared […]
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Mid-eighteenth century America had a smaller proportion of church members than any other nation in Christendom… in 1800 (only) one of every fifteen Americans was a church member.
No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns… in all these he has liberty; but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.
A friend once remarked that if (George W.) Bush had stopped going to church at the age of 40 he would still have attended more than most people do in a lifetime. But, again, Bush was bored by the time he arrived at midlife. Laura took him to a James Dobson seminar in hopes of […]
It is well said that “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” and I am confirmed every day in my intense conviction that the church as the church is the enemy of freedom. While protesting loudly its faith in the Truth with a capital T, “the truth shall make us free,” it fights at every […]
