Gad Saad Quotes

There is little doubt that religious liberty is best exercised within the setting of the secular state.

In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions. To argue otherwise is to violate the meaning of secularism.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of government to protect all conscientious professors therefore, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.

We early freed ourselves from the incubus of a State Church.

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

The greatest achievement ever made in the cause of human progress is the total and final separation of church and state. If we had nothing else to boast of, we could lay claim with justice that first among the nations we of this country made it an article of organic law that the relations between man and his Maker were a private concern, into which other men have no right to intrude.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than on opinions in physics or geometry.

What is crucial is that a government practice not have the effect of communicating a message of governmental endorsement or disapproval of religion.

The First Amendment mandates government neutrality between religion and religion, and between religion and non-religion.

Religion cannot be the agenda of any government.

I worry that there are attempts to push faith out of the public space. Clearly it happens at a level of local power.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.

The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.

I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.

Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.

The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.