Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.

The Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in this Earth. Not a baptism, not a marriage, not a sacrament can be administered but by the Holy Ghost. ... There is no authority, civil or religious, there can be no legitimate government, but that which is administered by this Holy Ghost. There can be no salvation without it. All without it is rebellion and perdition, or in more orthodox words, damnation.

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits.... Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king of the gipsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers, writers and schoolmasters? If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell, it is this society of Loyola's. Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out of their church, and all other religious sects approach this dreadful opinion in proportion to their ignorance, and the influence of ignorant or wicked priests.

Let the pulpit resound with the doctrine and sentiments of religious liberty. Let us hear of the dignity of man's nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God . . . . Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes and parliaments.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

To me, ideology is corrupt; it's a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you're an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you're religious, there's a mystery left there.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all.

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God

As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world.

That's not a religion, that's Pokemon.

Any religion whose messiah’s name isn’t recognized by Microsoft Word can’t be that much of a threat.