We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.
There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.
In my opinion, you start messing with what this country was founded on, and our baseline is what we call it, it opens up too many - too many doors. You start messing with that, people can say religion kills people. So, let's start messing with that.
Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.
Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.
We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.