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Religion Quotes

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06/29/10	Rand Paul		Interview		Separation of Church & State
	When asked if government should be allowed to support churches.
	"But the second this church starts taking government money, then they're going to say you can't say these things are sinful."
04/22/76	Thomas Jefferson				The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Thomas Jefferson to Richard Henry Lee, April 22, 1786
	What is it men cannot be made to believe!
01/17/25	Thomas Jefferson		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Thomas Jefferson, letter to General Alexander Smyth, Jan. 17, 1825
	It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it [the Apocalypse], and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams.
12/08/22	Thomas Jefferson		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Jefferson wrote to James Smith 1822
	The Christian god is a three headed monster, cruel, vengeful, and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites
07/10/22	James Madison		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	James Madison: Letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822
	Religion & Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
07/10/22	James Madison		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	James Madison: Letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822
	We are teaching the world the great truth that governments do better without kings and nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by the other lesson that religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
01/01/22	Thomas Jefferson				The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822
	Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
12/03/21	James Madison		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	James Madison: Letter to F. Schaeffer, December 3, 1821
	The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well-meaning Christians, as well as in the corrupt hearts of persecuting usurpers, that without legal incorporation of religious and civil polity, neither could be supported. A mutual independence is found most friendly to practical Religion, to social harmony, and to political prosperity.
04/13/20	Thomas Jefferson		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Short, April 13, 1820
	Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him [Jesus] by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.
08/06/16	Thomas Jefferson		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Thomas Jefferson, letter to Mrs. Samuel H. Smith, August, 6, 1816
	My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there.
07/30/16	Thomas Jefferson		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 30 July, 1816
	Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus."
03/17/14	Thomas Jefferson		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814
	In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
02/10/14	Thomas Jefferson				The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814
	Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
01/24/14	Thomas Jefferson		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...

	The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine.
01/24/14	Thomas Jefferson		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	-Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814
	In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.
01/01/14	Thomas Jefferson		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Thomas Jefferson: Letter to Thomas Law, 1814
	Nature has constituted utility to man the standard and test of virtue. Men living in different countries, under different circumstances, different habits and regimens, may have different utilities; the same act, therefore, may be useful and consequently virtuous in one country which is injurious and vicious in another differently circumstanced.
12/06/13	Thomas Jefferson		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.
	History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
01/01/13	Thomas Jefferson		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	To Baron von Humboldt, 1813
	History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose.
01/01/13	Thomas Jefferson				The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1813
	The law for religious freedom... [has] put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.
01/01/11	James Madison		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	James Madison, 1811, Writings
	The appropriation of funds of the United States for the use and support of religious societies, [is] contrary to the article of the Constitution which declares that 'Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment'.
02/04/09	Thomas Jefferson		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Letters to the Methodist Episcopal Church at New London, Connecticut, Feb. 4, 1809
	No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.
01/01/09	Thomas Jefferson		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Jefferson: Letter to J. Fishback, 1809
	Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.
12/09/08	Thomas Jefferson		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Letter to the Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Pittsburg, Dec. 9, 1808
	In justice, too, to our excellent Constitution, it ought to be observed, that it has not placed our religious rights under the power of any public functionary. The power, therefore, was wanting, not less than the will, to injure these rights.
01/23/08	Thomas Jefferson		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Thomas Jefferson: Letter to Samuel Miller, Jan. 23, 1808
	Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government.
01/01/08	Thomas Jefferson		Written		The United States is not a Christian Nation & Relig...
	Thomas Jefferson: Reply to Virginia Baptists, 1808
	We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the laws. And we have experienced the quiet as well as the comfort which results from leaving every one to profess freely and openly those principles of religion which are the inductions of his own reason and the serious convictions of his own inquiries.

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