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Quotations by and about Abraham Lincoln My
earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the
human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing
years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them. ***
"Mr.
Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of
ours can arrest the decree.' He never joined any Church. He was a religious man
always, I think, but was not a technical Christian." *** "In
religion, Mr. Lincoln was about of the same opinion as Bob Ingersoll, and there
is no account of his ever having changed. He went to church a few times with his
family while he was President, but so far as I have been able to find out, he
remained an unbeliever. Mr. Lincoln in his younger days wrote a book, in which
he endeavored to prove the fallacy of the plan of salvation and the divinity of
Christ." *** To
discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some
particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his
allegiance to any church, is an outrage against that liberty of conscience which
is one of the foundations of American life.
Comments by and about Thomas Jefferson
May it
[the Declaration
of Independence] be to
the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later,
but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which
monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to
assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have
substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and
freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The
general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the
palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their
backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by
the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the
annual return of this day
[July 4th]
forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion
to them.... *** The legitimate powers of
government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me
no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither
picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. ***
Millions of
innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have
been burnt, tortured, fined, and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch
toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one-half the
world fools and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over
the earth. ***
[A] short
time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion,
before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his
special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and
aggrandising their oppressors in Church and State; that the purest system of
morals ever before preached to man, has been adulterated and sophisticated by
artificial constructions, into a mere contrivance to filch wealth and power to
themselves; that rational men not being able to swallow their impious heresies,
in order to force them down their throats, they raise the hue and cry of
infidelity, while themselves are the greatest obstacles to the advancement of
the real doctrines of Jesus, and do in fact constitute the real Anti-Christ.
Comments by and about James MadisonEvery new & successful
example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of
importance. *** And I have no doubt that
every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in shewing that
religion & Govt will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed
together. *** The civil government ...
functions with complete success ... by the total separation of the Church from
the State. *** The purpose of separation of
church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that
has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries. *** Strongly guarded as is the
separation between Religion & Govt in the Constitution of the United States the
danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents
already furnished in their short history. (See the cases in which negatives were
put by J. M. on two bills passd by Congs and his signature withheld from
another. See also attempt in Kentucky for example, where it was proposed to
exempt Houses of Worship from taxes. *** I must admit moreover that
it may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation
between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with such distinctness as
to avoid collisions and doubts on unessential points. The tendency of a
usurpation on one side or the other, or to a corrupting coalition or alliance
between them, will be best guarded by an entire abstinence of the Government
from interference in any way whatever, beyond the necessity of preserving public
order, and protecting each sect against trespass on its legal rights by others. *** We hold it for a fundamental
and undeniable truth "that religion, or the duty which we owe our Creator, and
the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not
by force or violence." The religion, then, of every man must be left to the
conviction and conscience of every man: and that it is the right of every man to
exercise it as these may dictate. *** I have ever regarded the
freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect. *** Conscience is the most
sacred of all property. *** Torrents of blood have been
spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious
discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions. *** Are not the daily devotions
conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty
attendance, and a tiresome formality? *** The general government is
proscribed from the interfering, in any manner whatsoever, in matters respecting
religion; and it may be thought to do this, in ascertaining who, and who are
not, ministers of the gospel. *** What influence, in fact,
have ecclesiastical establishments had on 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 the guardians of the liberties of the people.
Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established
clergy convenient allies. *** Ecclesiastical
establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which facilitate
the execution of mischievous projects. *** Religious bondage shackles
and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every
expanded prospect. *** Religion flourishes in
greater purity without than with the aid of government. *** Who does not see that the
same authority which can establish Christianity in exclusion of all other
religions may establish, with the same ease, any particular sect of Christians
in exclusion of all other sects? That the same authority which can force a
citizen to contribute threepence only of his property for the support of any one
establishment may force him to conform to any other establishment in all cases
whatsoever? *** Rulers who wished to subvert
the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries.
A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not. *** What influence, in fact,
have ecclesiastical establishments had on 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 the guardians of the liberties of the people.
Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established
clergy convenient allies. ***
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every
noble enterprize, every expanded prospect. *** Experience witnesseth that eccelsiastical establishments, instead of maintaining
the purity and efficacy of Religion, have had a contrary operation. During
almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on
trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and
indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both,
superstition, bigotry and persecution.
Comments by and about Thomas PaineThere
is scarcely any part of science, or anything in nature, which those imposters
and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well Christians as Jews, have
not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of
superstition and falsehood. *** The study of theology, as
it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on
nothing; it rests on nothing; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it
can demonstrate nothing and admits of no conclusion. ***
Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to
saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to it. The common
operations of nature have not escaped their practice of corrupting everything. *** What is it the New
Testament teaches us? To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a
woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith. *** The Bible: a history of
wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. *** Whenever we read the
obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous
executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible
is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon
that the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt
and brutalize mankind; and for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest
everything that is cruel.
Comments by and about Eleanor RosseveltI do not want church
groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free. Anyone who knows history will recognize
that the domination of education or of government by any one particular
religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Comments by and about George Bernard ShawThe
fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the
fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity
is a cheap and dangerous quality. *** All the sweetness of
religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers.
Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither
intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the
teachers teach in vain. *** At present there is not a
single credible established religion in the world. *** We know now that the soul
is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they
want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our
bodies.
Comments By and About Robert IngersollNothing is greater than to
break the chains from the bodies of men -- nothing nobler than to destroy the
phantom of the soul. We need men with moral
courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their
convictions, even to the very death. The man who does not do his
own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men. They knew no better, but I
do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a
barbarian. The moment you introduce a
despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites -- and you
get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks. The doctrine of eternal
punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the
orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with
burnings. The men who burned their fellow-men for a moment, believed that God
would burn his enemies forever. We have heard talk enough.
We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to
hear. We have read your Bible and the works of your best minds. We have heard
your prayers, your solemn groans and your reverential amens. All these amount to
less than nothing. We want one fact. We beg at the doors of your churches for
just one little fact. We pass our hats along your pews and under your pulpits
and implore you for just one fact. We know all about your mouldy wonders and
your stale miracles. We want a this year's fact. We ask only one. Give us one
fact for charity. Your miracles are too ancient. The witnesses have been dead
for nearly two thousand years. Who can over estimate the
progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to
enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind? We have already compared the
benefits of theology and science. When the theologian governed the world, it was
covered with huts and hovels for the many, palaces and cathedrals for the few.
To nearly all the children of men, reading and writing were unknown arts. The
poor were clad in rags and skins -- they devoured crusts, and gnawed bones. The
day of Science dawned, and the luxuries of a century ago are the necessities of
to-day. Men in the middle ranks of life have more of the conveniences and
elegancies than the princes and kings of the theological times. But above and
over all this, is the development of mind. There is more of value in the brain
of an average man of to-day -- of a master-mechanic, of a chemist, of a
naturalist, of an inventor, than there was in the brain of the world four
hundred years ago. Orthodox Christians have the
habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men
of reputation, men of wealth. As soon as the funeral is over clergymen begin to
relate imaginary conversations with the deceased, and in a very little while the
great man is changed to a Christian -- possibly to a saint. Only a few years ago there
was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more
ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task. The ministers, who preached
at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not
philosophers. To them science was the name of a vague dread -- a dangerous
enemy. They did not know much, but they believed a great deal. The old lady who said there
must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him,
reasoned like a trained theologian -- like a doctor of divinity. [Excerpt] [Passage] It is contended by many that
ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look
upon the book as false or foolish are destroying the foundation of our country.
The truth is, our government is not founded upon the rights of gods, but upon
the rights of men. Our Constitution was framed, not to declare and uphold the
deity of Christ, but the sacredness of humanity. Ours is the first government
made by the people and for the people. It is the only nation with which the gods
have had nothing to do. And yet there are some judges dishonest and cowardly
enough to solemnly decide that this is a Christian country, and that our free
institutions are based upon the infamous laws of Jehovah.
Comments by and about Benjamin Franklin
When a religion is good, I
conceive 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. The way to see by faith is
to shut the eye of reason. I have found Christian dogma
unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies. Many a long dispute among
divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so. If we look back into history
for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that
have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The
primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the pagans, but
practiced it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England
blamed persecution in the Romish Church, but practiced it upon the Puritans.
These found it wrong in the bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves
both here and in New England. Lighthouses are more helpful
than churches. He
[the Rev. Mr.
Whitefield] used,
indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of
believing that his prayers were heard.
Comments by and about James FrazerMuch which we are wont to
regard as solid rests on the sands of superstition rather than on the rock of
nature. It is indeed a melancholy and in some respects thankless task to strike
at the foundations of beliefs in which, as in a strong tower, the hopes and
aspirations of humanity through long ages have sought refuge from the storm and
stress of life. Yet sooner or later it is inevitable that the battery of the
comparative method should breach these venerable walls, mantled over with the
ivy and moss and wild flowers of a thousand tender and sacred associations. At
present we are only dragging the guns into position; they have hardly yet begun
to speak. The task of building up into fairier and more enduring forms the old
structures so rudely shattered is reserved for other hands, perhaps for other
and happier ages. We cannot foresee, we can hardly even guess, the new forms
into which thought and society will run in the future. Yet this uncertainty
ought not to induce us, from any consideration of expediency or regard for
antiquity, to spare the ancient moulds, however beautiful, when these are proven
to be outworn. Whatever comes of it, wherever it leads, we must follow the truth
alone. It is our guiding star.
Bible Quotes On SlaveryLeviticus, Chapter 25, verses 44 to 46: 44. Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45. Moreover, of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigor.
Timothy, Chapter 6, verse 1: 1. Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
Quotes On Hebrew Moon Worship
The "sabbaths and the full moon" are
mentioned together in numerous passages of the Old Testament. The derivation of
the word "sabbath" is from the Babylonian "Shabattum," meaning the day of the
full moon, and the designation of the seventh day by the Hebrews is attributed
to the Babylonian "U-hul-gallum," which means the "evil day" and "a day of rest
for the heart." That the Hebrews copied or However, instead of making their Sabbath in accordance with the moon's changes, the Hebrews decided upon the seventh day regardless of its coincidence with the moon's variations. As the Children of Israel were a nomadic people, they could not depend upon the phases of the moon to determine their day of rest. In order to have their Sabbath come at regular intervals, they abandoned the lunar religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians, and adopted the seventh day of the week In 1869, George Smith, well known as a pioneer student of Assyriology, discovered among the cuneiform tablets in the British Museum "curious religious calendars of the Assyrians, in which every month is divided into four weeks, and the seventh days, or 'Sabbaths,' are marked out as days on which no work should be undertaken." Authorities contend that this reckoning of the days of the week and the taboo prescribed for the seventh day probably belonged to the age of Hammurabi. Even the name Sinai means "moon-mountain," a synonym for "sin." One of the Hebrew names for "month" is yerah, from yareah, "moon"; it is also called hodesh, which means "new moon." Orthodox Jewish mothers still teach their children to take off their hats to the new moon, and the custom of offering a prayer to the new moon still prevails…. From Book – “The Ten Commandments” by Joseph Lewis
Miscellaneous Quotes On Religion And Government"The
founders of our nation were nearly all Infidels, and that of the presidents who
had thus far been elected
[Washington; Adams; Jefferson; Madison; Monroe; Adams; Jackson]
not a one had
professed a belief in Christianity....
Dr. Andrew
Bernstein Even in this secular
country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away.
Every major religious text exhorts the same principles -- that of unyielding
obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and
personal aspirations. Many argue that Christianity
is "different" from other religions -- that it is primarily about love of one's
fellow man. The Crusades, The Inquisition, Calvin's Geneva all prove that this
is not the case. These events were pre-eminently about obedience to authority.
Comments by and about Joseph Campbell
Too many of our best
scholars, themselves indoctrinated from infancy in a religion of one kind or
another based upon the Bible, are so locked into the idea of their own god as a
supernatural fact -- something final, not symbolic of transcendence, but a
personage with a character and will of his own - that they are unable to grasp
the idea of a worship that is not of the symbol but of its reference, which is
of a mystery of much greater age and of more immediate inward reality than the
name-and-form of any historical ethinic idea of a deity, whatsoever ... and is
of a sophistication that makes the sentimentalism of our popular Bible-story
theology seem undeveloped. The two greatest works of
war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament.... When we
turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament [we
find] a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And
the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled...pretty much as
though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It." People say that what we are
all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really
seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so
that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances
within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture
of being alive. Read myths. They teach you
that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read
other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to
interpret your own religion in terms of facts -- but if you read the other ones,
you begin to get the message. Myth helps you to put your mind in touch with this
experience of being alive. Myth tells you what the experience is.
Comments by and about Clarence Darrow
I feel as I always have,
that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that
whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here. I am an Agnostic because I
am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would
send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would
not be a god; he would be a devil. Do you, good people, believe
that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were
forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been
afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion
makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the
brain of man. I'm not worried about my soul. Just think of the tragedy of
teaching children not to doubt! A prison is confining to the
body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.
Comments by and about Charles Darwin
-- Charles Darwin, letter to Wallace: had Thomson's conclusions been correct, evolution by natural selection would have been falsified, but, Thomson's conclusions were wrong and Darwin's theory was not thereby falsified, quoted from Victor J. Stenger, Has Science Found God? (draft: 2001) How so many absurd rules of
conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not
know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so
deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief
constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is
impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the
very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.
René Descartes (1596-1650)
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their Sabbath day from others cannot be disputed. That it was a taboo day, a day
portentous of evil and associated with the full moon, seems also undisputed.