The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
people say churches are half empty, they're not, they're too big
The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.
One of the threats to Christianity in the 21st century is this idea that religion is best understood as a kind of aesthetic experience, and that you can get all your morality from that.
I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.
Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn’t killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?
People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.
The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.
Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.
Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.
The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying.
'Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace.
Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.
I believe that the faith heritage of this country is actually a very important part of America's culture.
