“The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.”
— Robert Bork
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“Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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“Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.”
— Linda Chavez
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“All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.”
— Richard Le Gallienne
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“Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.”
— Benito Mussolini
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“From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.”
— William Ames
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“There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.”
— Mary Augusta Ward
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“All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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“The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.”
— Peter King
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