There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
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It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.
Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.
Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
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.
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
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