Separation Of Church And State Quotes - Page 8

• I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.

  Michael Badnarik

  Party, Church, Libertarian

  "Candidate Profile: Michael Badnarik, Libertarian Party". www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2004.

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• The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Thomas Paine (1861). “The Age of Reason, etc”, p.7

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• If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

  Tony Campolo

  Government, Church, Sacred

  Tony Campolo (2010). “Red Letter Christians (Large Print 16pt)”, p.97, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The separation of church and state has been a cornerstone of American democracy for over two hundred years. Getting rid of it was long overdue.

  Andy Borowitz

  Years, Two, Long

  "In Landmark Decision, Supreme Court Strikes Down Main Reason Country Was Started". Satire from The Borowitz Report, www.newyorker.com. May 05, 2014.

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• Separation of church and state in Virginia, instead of weakening Christianity, as the conservatives of the Revolution had feared, really aided it in securing a power over men far greater than it had known in the past.

  H. J Eckenrode

  Past, Men, Virginia

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• The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

  James A. Garfield

  Divorce, Church, States

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• There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state.

  Pat Robertson

  Church, Constitution, Separation

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• Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that morality derived from religion should not be permitted to shape our laws. Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression. Secularists want to empty the public square of religion and religious-based morality so they can monopolize the shared space of society with their own views. In the process they have made religious believers into second-class citizens.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Religious, Mean, Space

  Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great about Christianity”, Tyndale House Pub

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• The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, Vision, Church

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Religious, Father

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• Between being praised and persecuted condoned and condemned I might understandably have become bewildered particularly at the brand of ethics sometimes displayed by the staunch defenders of Christianity. But of one thing I am sure: I am sure that I fought not only for what I earnestly believed to be right but for the truest kind of religious freedom intended by the First Amendment the complete separation of church and state.

  Vashti McCollum

  Religious, Church, Might

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• Each of us has the choice to attend the church we want to, or none at all. Separation of church and state allows for religions to have their own set of rules as to whom they will accept and who they won't, and the practices they support and the ones they don't. They will continue to be able to do so.

  Pauley Perrette

  Practice, Choices, Support

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• A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.

  Edmund Randolph

  Trust, Character, Equality

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• The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

  Warren E. Burger

  Christian, Religious, Tolerance

  Warren E. Burger (1984). “Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States”

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• I was overwhelmed by the number of calls we got from people offering to rent us houses, to take us out to dinner, to drive us around house hunting. Everyone was just indescribably kind in Havaii. Finally we moved into a house offered to us for an incredible $125 a month by a man who feels that the separation of church and state is a valid constitutional issue which should be fought for.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Men, Hunting, Numbers

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• The single most prevalent form of child abuse in this country is the act of sending a child to a government school. We worry incessantly about the separation of church and state. We would do well to devote half as much attention to the separation of government and education.

  Neal Boortz

  Country, Children, School

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• By our form of Government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed on the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

  Samuel Chase

  Christian, Religious, Government

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• The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.

  John Adams

  Character, Law, America

  "Treaty of Tripoli". Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary signed by President John Adams (Article 11), www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 1797.

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• When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state, I say he is wrong.

  Arlen Specter

  Church, Doctrine, Separation

  "Joining Race, Specter Attacks the Right" by Richard L. Berke, www.nytimes.com. March 31, 1995.

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• The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.

  Nat Hentoff

  Christian, Religious, Doors

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• Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.

  Roy Moore

  Government, Church, Separation

  Interview with Gwen Ifill on "PBS Flashpoints USA" (2004), as quoted in "Here Are Some Pretty Wild Things Roy Moore Has Said Over The Years" by Joanna Purpich, www.thedailybeast.com. September 25, 2017.

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• This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen.

  George Carlin

  Art, Prayer, Father

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• Extremist groups like People for the American Way attack Christians who run for public office as a threat to the 'separation of church and state,' though they never specify why conservatives are any more of a threat than churchmen and church women on the Left who have led religiously inspired causes for decades.

  Ronald H. Nash

  Christian, Running, Religious

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• They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left, and we're not going to take it anymore.

  Pat Robertson

  Lying, Religion, Atheism

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• Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.

  Pope Francis

  Leadership, Wisdom, Money

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