David Barton Quotes

We meditate on the transcendental glory of the Deity Supreme, who is inside the heart of the Earth, inside the life of the sky and inside the soul of the heaven. May He stimulate and illuminate our minds…. Peace, peace, peace be unto all.

I believe in an America where the separation of Church and State is absolute—where no Catholic prelate would tell the President, should he be a Catholic, how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners how to vote.... I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant or Jewish ... for while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew—or a Quaker—or a Unitarian—or a Baptist.

If anybody understood what Hindus really believe, there would be no doubt that they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality

In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest religious intolerance which exists among many of our citizens. I hold it to be a menace to the very liberties we boast and cherish.

Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore.

There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain.

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

I believe in the fundamental Truth of all the great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God given. I came to the conclusion long ago … that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu … But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian.

With all due respect to those dear people … God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew.

We’re not fighting for Christianity but against human fanaticism of all kinds.

I do not know which is the more dangerous to liberty—Romanism or Protestantism. Either is fatal if it predominates.

Islam is a very evil and wicked religion.

The Catholics had the right secured to them by the Constitution of worshipping the God of their fathers in the manner dictated by their consciences.... This country is not prepared to establish an inquisition to try and punish men for their religious beliefs.

The liberty I contend for is more than toleration. The very idea of toleration is despicable; it supposes that some have a pre-eminence above the rest to grant indulgence; whereas all should be equally free, Jews, Turks, Pagans and Christians. Test Oaths and established creeds should be avoided as the worst of evils.

When national leaders address the people of Fiji in specifically Christian terms, whatever the occasion, nearly half of our people are excluded. When prayer in mixed company is uttered in terms of a purely Christian God, we unintentionally omit and diminish others present of different faiths.

We persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.

Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms

What does religious freedom look like? As America gets more religiously diverse, the concept is getting harder to define …. You can get 10 different groups in the room and they will disagree about what religious liberty is.

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.

The Catholic Church has always exploited the working classes…. Your religion I spit on as I do on all religions, -- on Orthodox, Jewish, Mohammedan, and the rest. There is no law here but Soviet Law and by that law you must die

For the love of the Faith [Islam] I became enemies of the Hindus and pagans.

Making fun of born-again christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.