Bjorn Ulvaeus Quotes

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they'd like to admit, in that all of them very much want to see a role of religion in society.

The separation of church and state was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

I disagree strongly with the concept of separation of church and state. It was not written into the Constitution.

Those who deny the existence of a supreme being have been turned into second-class citizens by a government that continuously sends messages that 'real Americans' believe in God.

The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

George W. Bush has merged church and state while trying to keep it apart in Iraq.

The alliance between church and state in England, has ever made their judges accomplice in the frauds of the clergy.

The mixing of government and religion can be a threat to free government, even if no one is forced to participate.... When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion, it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs.

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

God doesn't belong in politics.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion—except for the sect that can win political power.

When it comes to matters of religion and state, Bayit Yehudi is more extreme than the ultra-Orthodox.

There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

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

When 'Christians' cite the Bible as the basis for secular policies, they must explain why they believe Muslims in the Middle East are evil for doing the same with the Koran.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

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.

I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

I don't think Arizonans are interested in having the Mormon religion dictate public policy to them.