Hans Denck Quotes
The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.
This appears to be one of the first religious groups to withdraw and separate from a state church.
Hans Denck, 1495-1527, Swiss Anabaptist Leader, Statement as the Anabaptists separated from the State Church of Switzerland
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Catholics were blamed by some for the defeat of Henry Clay in 1844. Anti catholic sentiment was high:. Johnson was then a Congressman representing a district where there were few Catholics and strong anti-Catholic feeling.
In the American system, we do not oppose any religion. We do oppose the right of any religion to use the power of the state and governments to compel or use government resources to promote or subsidize their religion. Other countries have established churches or a national religion. In that sense, some religions perceive America objects to their religion because we do not make it our established religion. Opposing prayer in public schools is not opposing prayer. It is only opposing prayer in that specific context where all payers are paying including the non believers in that particular religion.
The same phrase was used by Count de Montalembert at a Catholic conference in Malines, August 20, 1863, and is sometimes attributed to him.
Carroll was writing to Troy during the time of the question of Catholic emancipation in England. Here he is clearly alluding to the British form of government. Carroll never missed the opportunity to champion religious freedom as manifested in the U.S. Constitution. For an earlier example of his praise for religious freedom, see {596933}.
At the time Kaunitz was a young lawyer and diplomat who had abandoned the church career that his parents had hoped for him.
Prior to Vatican II, freedom of conscience was not explicit in Catholic Doctrine. The controlling view had been that of Pope Pius IX a hundred years earlier. See {612299}.
Henry of Navarre
Williams was the first theologian who not only advocated religious toleration but argued that Christianity demanded it and the separation of church and state.
Hans Denck was a German theologian and Anabaptist leader during the Reformation.
