George Sand Quotes
No religion can be built on force.
George Sand, 1804-1876, French Writer, Quoted in Women: A Journal of Liberation, Fall 1970
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Despite his recognition of this point, he too became an advocate of murdering religious opponents.
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
One of the reasons that this quotation is so significant is that the Roman Catholic Church had been historically antithetical to science and scientists. It took hundreds of years before the church would admit that Galileo was right and the church wrong about the earth revolving around the sun. But Pope John Paul II, along with his other major accomplishments removed the traditional Catholic hostility in theology and tradition. He even acknowledged the validity of the Theory of Evolution and taught that there was nothing inherent in evolution that denied God or scripture.
The King, a religious exremist fanatic, was a great supporter of the Inquisition whose excesses were horrible during his reign.
Hume is one of the first to observe that if a society would be religiously pluralistic, the ruler and government had best separate itself from all of the religions. He uses the phrase “preserve a very philosophical indifference.” The Founding Fathers were familiar with Hume’s work and of his treatises were available to them in a Philadelphia library during the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
In 1877 Wasburn was dropped from the List of Ministers by the Unitarian Church. He had become quite atheistic.
What was particularly unusual about this quote was that Cronkite had always been so circumspect about his own political views and opinions and rarely expressed personal criticism of any group or movement. When he was the national anchor for CBS News, he was so non partisan that he became the “most trusted man in America.” By 2007 however, most of the radical religious right had organized a serious movement which unlike other self interest groups which wanted to expand their rights or benefits, much of the radical religious right strove to curtail the rights of other Americans who differed from them as to religious interpretation, concepts and role of government, sound family structure and relationships, gender equality, sex, and personal freedom.
This quote is known as “Neuhaus’ Law.”
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, best known by her pen name George Sand (French: [ʒɔʁʒ sɑ̃d]), was a French novelist, memoirist, and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than both Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era.
