50 Simple Questions for Every Christian by Guy P. Harrison

Author:Guy P. Harrison [Harrison, Guy P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781616147280
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2013-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.

—Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and

third president of the United States

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion . . .

—excerpt from Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli,

unanimously ratified by the US Senate in 1797

I mix religion with politics as little as possible.

—John Adams, first vice president and

second president of the United States

Because experience witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and efficacy of Religion, have had a contrary operation. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution. Enquire of the Teachers of Christianity for the ages in which it appeared in its greatest lustre; those of every sect, point to the ages prior to its incorporation with Civil policy.

—James Madison, “Father of the US Constitution”

and fourth president of the United States, from

Memorial and Remonstrance against

Religious Assessments, 1785

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

—Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and third president of

the United States, from his letter to Danbury Baptists, 1802

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