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| Title: |
God in the Constitution |
Author: |
Robert Green Ingersoll |
| Subject: |
Separation of State and Church |
Published: |
05/04/2003 |
"The government of God has been tried. It was tried in Palestine several thousand years ago, and the God of the Jews was a monster of cruelty and ignorance, and the people governed by this God lost their nationality. Theocracy was tried through the Middle Ages. God was the Governor -- the pope was his agent, and every priest and bishop and cardinal was armed with credentials from the Most High -- and the result was that the noblest and best were in prisons, the greatest and grandest perished at the stake."
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| Title: |
Is America a Christian Nation? |
Author: |
Dan Barker |
| Subject: |
Separation of State and Church |
Published: |
11/19/2002 |
"Ignoring history, law, and fairness, many fanatics are working vigorously to turn America into a Christian nation. Fundamentalist Protestants and right-wing Catholics would impose their narrow morality on the rest of us, resisting women's rights, freedom for religious minorities and unbelievers, gay and lesbian rights, and civil rights for all. History shows us that only harm comes of uniting church and state."
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| Title: |
Why I Believe In Fair Taxation Of Church Property |
Author: |
Joseph McCabe |
| Subject: |
Separation of State and Church |
Published: |
11/29/2001 |
"The state helps to pay? What we should say is that millions of non-religious citizens, millions of citizens who have no kind of use for the church, are compelled to pay for this unjust favoritism. As firm believers in the rights of man, as opponents of inequality and tyranny in all forms, we demand the fair taxation of all church property."
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| Title: |
No Faith In The Absurd |
Author: |
Richard Dawkins |
| Subject: |
Separation of State and Church |
Published: |
09/18/2001 |
"But I come back to my main point. The idea that primary schoolchildren could be labelled "Protestant children" or "Catholic children" is as absurd as "Tory children", "Labour children" or "Liberal children" would be."
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| Title: |
Declaration of Mental Independence |
Author: |
Robert Owen |
| Subject: |
Social Criticism |
Published: |
11/04/2000 |
"This formidable Trinity, compounded of Ignorance, Superstition and Hypocrisy, is the only Demon, or Devil, that ever has, or, most likely ever will torment the human race."
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| Title: |
Christianity: Its Nature and Influence on Civilisation |
Author: |
Charles Watts |
| Subject: |
Christian Mentality |
Published: |
10/16/2000 |
"Can an age or a country be considered civilised in which so large an amount of abject and, to all appearance, hopeless poverty prevails? Have we not ignorance, sickness, and sorrow existing on every hand? Are there not thousands who wake every morning tortured with anxiety as to how they are to obtain food for the day, and when the hour for sleep again returns, they know not where to lay their heads?"
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| Title: |
The Return Of The Plenary Indulgences |
Author: |
Huáscar Terra do Valle |
| Subject: |
Religious Reformation |
Published: |
06/20/2000 |
"Protestants are opening their chapels everywhere, occupying cinemas and night clubs. They even buy television channels and use mass persuasion techniques, creating the "tithe payers day", which are true money-asking orgies. They ask the tithe from all incomes of the churchgoers, even from the selling of a car, for instance. If the believer does not pay the tithe, the devil will pick on him and his life will be destroyed, as grant the priests."
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