Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes

Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the entire society. The message they currently communicate is harsh and unambiguous: religion is offensive and should be kept out of public view.

Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.

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

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

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

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

We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing. And we extend that to our politics - not just church and state, but it's also there's a separation of religion and politics. But of course there isn't.

It is no part of the of the business of government to compose official prayers.

Congress shall not make any law infringing the rights of conscience, or establishing any religious sect or society Congress shall make no law establishing one religious sect or society in preference to others. Congress shall make no law establishing any particular denomination of religion in preference to another

I don’t believe in theocracy. Everywhere you have a state religion, it dies.

If they wanted a Christian state, they could have done it. They were writing the rules. They could have put God in the rules.

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

Many journalists seem to desire 'liberation' from Christian roots.

That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're going to fight.

The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ... to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.

To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just say: The first amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.

I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no intelligent design to the universe. Where I become interested and wake up is about the temporal power of religion, things like prayer in schools, or Catholic-secular hospital mergers.

Acknowledgment of God is not now, or ever has been, a violation of the US constitution.