If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.
Ronald ReaganTags: inspirational religon separation-of-church-and-state
Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?
Sandra Day O'ConnorTags: religion church state separation-of-church-and-state secularism theocracy
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.
Ronald ReaganTags: christmas separation-of-church-and-state secular
[Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism:]
Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. For you to say of Nazism that it was the implementation of the work of Charles Darwin is a filthy slander, undeserving of you and an insult to this audience. Darwin’s thought was not taught in Germany; Darwinism was so derided in Germany along with every other form of unbelief that all the great modern atheists, Darwin, Einstein and Freud were alike despised by the National Socialist regime.
Now, just to take the most notorious of the 20th century totalitarianisms – the most finished example, the most perfected one, the most ruthless and refined one: that of National Socialism, the one that fortunately allowed the escape of all these great atheists, thinkers and many others, to the United States, a country of separation of church and state, that gave them welcome – if it’s an atheistic regime, then how come that in the first chapter of Mein Kampf, that Hitler says that he’s doing God’s work and executing God’s will in destroying the Jewish people? How come the fuhrer oath that every officer of the Party and the Army had to take, making Hitler into a minor god, begins, “I swear in the name of almighty God, my loyalty to the Fuhrer?” How come that on the belt buckle of every Nazi soldier it says Gott mit uns, God on our side? How come that the first treaty made by the Nationalist Socialist dictatorship, the very first is with the Vatican? It’s exchanging political control of Germany for Catholic control of German education. How come that the church has celebrated the birthday of the Fuhrer every year, on that day until democracy put an end to this filthy, quasi-religious, superstitious, barbarous, reactionary system?
Again, this is not a difference of emphasis between us. To suggest that there’s something fascistic about me and about my beliefs is something I won't hear said and you shouldn't believe.
Tags: science einstein united-states evolution fascism darwinism catholicism freud charles-darwin darwin jewish germany separation-of-church-and-state albert-einstein adolf-hitler hitler pope barbaric fascistic fuhrer mein-kampf nazi nazism sigmund-freud superstitious vatican
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims],—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Mohammedan] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.
[Adams submitted and signed the Treaty of Tripoli, 1797]
Tags: separation-of-church-and-state christian-religion christian-nation united-states-government
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: power religion danger law sect organized-religion separation-of-church-and-state cult
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald ReaganTags: separation-of-church-and-state
The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
John AdamsTags: christianity religion separation-of-church-and-state john-adams treaty-of-tripoli-1796
...legitimate powers of government reach actions only,
Thomas JeffersonTags: religion government civil-rights organized-religion separation-of-church-and-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.
[Letter objecting to the use of government land for churches, 1803]
Tags: politics history religion organized-religion separation-of-church-and-state europe
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