As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us.
America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.
The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.
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