I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,... as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And we can get back to that raw state Of feeling, so long deemed... Inconsequential and therefore appropriate to our later musings About religion, about migrations. What is restored Becomes stronger than the loss as it is remembered; Is a new, separate life of its own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer can bar th...e way to the White House. Some of you may live to see the day when the prejudice of sex no longer places the Presidency beyond the reach of a greatly gifted American lady. Long before them, I hope you will see a woman member of the Supreme Court of the United States. In Congress and in our State Legislatures we need more women to bring their sensitive experience to the shaping of our decisions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with ...which it only later became involved. From the lifetime of its founder, Islam was the state, and the identity of religion and government is indelibly stamped on the memories and awareness of the faithful from their own sacred writings, history, and experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience is held by the same ...tenure with all our rights. [The legislature] are bound to leave this particular right untouched and sacred, [or] we must say, that they may control freedom of the press, may abolish the trial by jury, may swallow the Executive and the Judiciary Powers of the State; nay that they may despoil us of our very right of suffrage ... or we must say, that they have no authority to enact [a religious assessment].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true th...at unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonised, the religion cannot be healthy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in ...the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the pri...est is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and whi...ch itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »