Tony Abbott Quotes

I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

The line cannot be too strongly drawn.

Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.

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Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state.

The Church's role should be separated from the state's role.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Whether we like it or not, religion and government policy are unavoidably linked.

Religion is too important an aspect of human life to be prostituted to politics, just as politics is too important a part of human life to be enslaved to religion.

There is no room for theocracy in Islam.

To say that religion cannot stand without a state establishment is not only contrary to fact (as has been proved already) but is a contradiction in phrase.

As long as I live, I will not allow anybody to lead the country towards secularism.

Is it the duty of a deist to support that which he believes to be a cheat and imposition? Is it the duty of the Jew to support the religion of Jesus Christ, when he really believes that he was an imposter? Must the papist be forced to pay men for preaching down the supremacy of the pope, whom they are sure is the head of the church? Government has no more to do with the religious opinions of men than it has with the principles of mathematics