#ration

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. ↗

— James Madison

#organized-religion #politics #religion #separation-of-church-and-state #religion

من قال عليّ ما لم أقل فليتبوأ مقعده من النار Whoever ascribes to me what I have not said then let him occupy his seat in Hell-fire! (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 3, #109) ↗

— Anonymous

#bukhari #hadeeth #hadith #islam #mohammed

They knew that to put God in the constitution was to put man out. They knew that the recognition of a Deity would be seized upon by fanatics and zealots as a pretext for destroying the liberty of thought. They knew the terrible history of the church too well to place in her keeping or in the keeping of her God the sacred rights of man. They intended that all should have the right to worship or not to worship that our laws should make no distinction on account of creed. They intended to found and frame a government for man and for man alone. They wished to preserve the individuality of all to prevent the few from governing the many and the many from persecuting and destroying the few. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#politics #religion #separation-of-church-and-state #religion

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'Connor

#religion #secularism #separation-of-church-and-state #state #theocracy

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#extremism #opinion #opinions #passion #rationalism

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others. ↗

— Ouida

#selfishness #energy

If anything or anyone removes peace from you or inflicts confusion and judgment on you, this thing or person is not of God regardless of whether or not that person or thing has wrapped itself/himself in the wrapping paper with God's face printed all over it. Don't stop believing in God but stop believing in that person, in that thing. The wrapping paper with God's face stamped all over it isn't really God. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#guidance #inspirational-spiritual #judgement #peace #religion

I am very close to HIM, sometimes I think I am HIM, with my mood is the weather,bright and sunny forever. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#inspirational #life #poems #religion #inspirational

I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict. ↗

— Donzella Michele Malone

#celebrate #conflict #diversity #inspirational #peace

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#religion #religion