Stephen J. Field Quotes

If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God.

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.

I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.

For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine... God ordains the death penalty!

If God himself did not compel obedience, than no man should try.

The Sword and its law have existed from the beginning of the world. The use of force can never prevent heresy.

The authority of all magistrates (with however great power and sovereignty they be vested) is as it were hedged in by these two limits set by God himself, namely Piety and Charity

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

I grew up Catholic, so I have these defenses about listening to anything with too much religiosity; some of the lyrics didn't sit well in my mouth. One of my beefs is the patriarchal setup. Having the 'he, he, he, God, God, God, king, king, king' stuff was hard for me.

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

Rights come from God, not from government.

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.