Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. | |
― Napoléon Bonaparte | |
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Posts Tagged ‘Religion In Politics’
For Awhile Anyway
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Faith, Napoléon Bonaparte, On Religion, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Religion In Politics on October 31, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Truth Shift
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Faith, John Locke, Letters Concerning Toleration, On Politics, Philosophy, Quotes, Religion In Politics, Separation of Church and State on March 7, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The business of laws is not to provide for the truth of opinions, but for the safety and security of the commonwealth, and of every particular man’s goods and person. And so it ought to be. For the truth certainly would do well enough if she were once left to shift for herself. | |
— John Locke | |
From: “Letters Concerning Toleration“ | |
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Disturbing
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, My Journal, Quotes, tagged Henry F. Ottinger, My Journal, Quotes, Religion In Politics on May 29, 2012| Leave a Comment »
And all of you this: I love you for what you might be; I’m deeply disturbed by what you are. | |
— Henry F. Ottinger | |
[My feelings about the Religious Right in America… — KMAB] | |
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Except When He’s Left
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Politics, Quotes, tagged Abraham Lincoln, Quotes, Religion In Politics on January 12, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right. | |
— Abraham Lincoln | |
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Passionate Germs
Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged Politics, President John Adams, Quotes, Religion In Politics on October 16, 2011| Leave a Comment »
There is a germ of religion in human nature so strong that whenever an order of men can persuade the people by flattery or terror that they have salvation at their disposal, there can be no end to fraud, violence, or usurpation. | |
— President John Adams | |
[There must be a similar set of germs in human nature for nationalism. — KMAB] | |
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Good And Bad
Posted in Charities, Politics, Quotes, tagged Benjamin Franklin, Charities, Politics, Quotes, Religion In Politics on October 15, 2011| Leave a Comment »
When a religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it, so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, ’tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one. | |
— Benjamin Franklin | |
[And why are we continuing to support “Faith Based” charities with government funds? Would the Founding Fathers do so? — KMAB] | |
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Attaining High Office
Posted in Politics, Quotes, tagged George Washington, Politics, Quotes, Religion In Politics, Religious Tolerance on October 14, 2011| Leave a Comment »
In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man’s religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States. | |
— George Washington | |
[Can a Mormon grow up to be President of the United States? — KMAB] | |
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Discernible Virtue
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Founding Fathers, Moral Minority, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Religion, Religion In Politics, Virtue on May 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »
This sentiment is echoed again and again in the writings of the Founding Fathers. Virtue brings happiness, vice unhappiness, both to the individual subject and to society in general. The nature of virtue is not mysterious, to be comprehended only through Christian revelation; it is clearly evident in nature and discernible through the exercise of reason. | |
— Brooke Allen | |
From her book: “Moral Minority“ | |
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Are You Convinced?
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Faith, Family and Friends, Founding Fathers, James Madison, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Reading, Recommended Reading, Religion, Religion In Politics, Religious Tolerance on May 8, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess and to observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us. | |
— James Madison | |
(From “Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments“) | |
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Convenient Auxiliaries
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Founding Fathers, James Madison, Philosophy, Quotes, Religion, Religion In Politics on May 7, 2011| Leave a Comment »
What influence in fact have ecclesiastical establishments had on Civil Society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the Civil authority; in many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny: in no instance have they been seen the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. | |
— James Madison | |
From: “Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments“ | |
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True, False And Useful
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Politics, Quotes, tagged Faith, Family and Friends, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Politics, Quotes, Religion In Politics on May 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. | |
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca | |
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What Have You Burned Lately?
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Politics, Quotes, tagged Abraham Bishop, Politics, Quotes, Religion In Politics on May 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »
[When] the pretended friends of religion lead infidel lives; when they carry religion to market and offer it in exchange for luxuries and honors’ when they place it familiarly and constantly in the columns of newspapers, manifestly connected with electioneering purposes, and when they are offering it up as a morning and evening sacrifice on the altar of political party — these men are placing a firebrand to every meeting house and applying a torch to every bible. | |
— Abraham Bishop | |
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