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Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected... Government and true Christianity are inseparable. ~ Robert Simonds (Citizens for Excellence in Education)

Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity, as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed' ~ Ann Coulter

Christian, n. One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently, Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them. ~ Andre Gide, journal entry, October 10, 1893

Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect. ~ Søren Kierkegaard

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. ~ James Baldwin, "Letter from a Region in My Mind," in New Yorker (17 Nov. 1962)

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important." ~ C.S. Lewis

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us to-day.... The rulers of the earth have realized long ago what potent poison inheres in the Christian religion. That is the reason they foster it; that is why they leave nothing undone to instill it into the blood of the people. They know only too well that the subtleness of the Christian teachings is a more powerful protection against rebellion and discontent than the club or the gun. ~ Emma Goldman, The Failure of Christianity (1913)

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity. ~ John Lennon, as quoted in the Evening Standard (London, 4 March 1966).

Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love" ~ Henry Louis Mencken

Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak, diseased thing, always it has instilled fear in man, turning him into a dual being, whose life energies are spent in the struggle between body and soul. In decrying the body as something evil, the flesh as the tempter to everything that is sinful, man has mutilated his being in the vain attempt to keep his soul pure, while his body rotted away from the injuries and tortures inflicted upon it.
The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed, the idea of self-denial and of all that makes for pain and sorrow is its test of human worth, its passport to the entry into heaven. ~ Emma Goldman, The Failure of Christianity (1913)

"Give us this day our daily bread. Oh sure.
Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. Nobody better trespass against me.
I'll tell you that.
Blessed are the meek.
Blessed are the merciful.
You mean we can't use torture?
Blessed are the peacemakers.
Jane Fonda?
Love your enemies - Arabs?
Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.
The hell I can't! Look at the Reverand Pat Robertson.
And He is as happy as a pig in shit." ~ Kurt Vonnegut (using sarcasm)

"I am a Muslim and a Hindu and a Christian and a Jew and so are all of you." ~ Gandhi

"I am a real christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our creator." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." ~ C.S. Lewis

"I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough -- I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"I don't reject your Christ, I love your Christ.It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike your Christ." Gandhi

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood. ~ George Carlin

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being. ~ Jerry Falwell

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here." ~ Patrick Henry, 1776

Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different...More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history. ~ Pat Robertson (Christian Coalition)

"Let divines and philosophers, statemen and patriots, unite their endeavours to renovate the age by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating little boys and girls, inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the deity...And leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the christian system." ~ Samual Adams, October 4, 1790.

Let us be done with being anti-anybody. Let us become pro-Christ and pro-love! Let us stop talking against this person and that, this nation and that. Let us begin to live Christianity! ~ Catherine Doherty

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love all. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul. ~ William Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook (1949), entry for 1901

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men" ~ Voltaire

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is none more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory in itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter. ~ Thomas Paine

"Our country was founded on the gospel of Jesus Christ." ~ Patrick Henry

Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free. ~ Pat Buchanan

Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies. ~ Randall Terry (Operation Rescue)

Raising your children under Americanism or any other principles other than true Christianity is child abuse. ~ Robert T. Lee (Society for the Practical Establishment of the Ten Commandments)

The abuses of Christianity, like the abuses of government, are conditioned in the thing itself, and are not to be charged to the representatives of the creed. Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name. ~ Emma Goldman, "The Failure of Christianity," in Goldman's Mother Earth journal, April, 1913

The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ. ~ James Kennedy (Center for Reclaiming America)

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried." ~ G. K. Chesterton

The Christian religion has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. ~ Bertrand Russell

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Sec. 130

The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every [in]dignity, every outrage imposed upon mankind. ~ Emma Goldman, The Failure of Christianity (1913)

"The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of christianity... I will avow that i believed and now believe that those general principles of christianity are as eternal and imutable as the existence and attributes of god" ~ John Adams

"The law given from Mt. sinai, the Ten Commandments, was a civil and municipal as well as moral and religious code." ~ John Quincy Adams, in "letters to his son" pg. 61.

The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant–baptism and holy communion–must be denied citizenship. ~ Gary North (Institute for Christian Economics)

The [Supreme] Court, by seeking to equate Christianity with other religions, merely assaults the one faith. The Court in essence is assailing the true God by democratizing the Christian religion. ~ John Whitehead (Rutherford Institute)

The very word 'Christianity' is a misunderstanding — in truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, The AntiChrist, Sec. 39

This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians. ~ Gary North (Institute for Christian Economics)

Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between Communistic Atheism and Christianity. ~ Joseph McCarthy (Sen. R-WI)

We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand. ~ James Watt (Secretary of the Interior in the Reagan Admin)

We need a legal strategy which protects the rights of those of us who hold Christian convictions which will afford us the opportunity to contend once again for the mind of this culture. ~ Keith A. Fournier (Catholic Way)

"We recognize no sovereign But God, and no king But Jesus" ~ John adams and John Hancock, April 18,1775

"We've staked our future on our abilty to follow the ten commandments with all our heart." ~ James Madison

When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more talk of rights for homosexuals. After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody the right to practice evil. ~ Gary Potter (Catholics for Christian Political Action)

"Why is it that, next to the birthday of the saviour of the world, your most joyous and venerated festival returns on this day? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the saviour? That it forms a leading event in the progres of the gospel dispensation? Is it not that the declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the redeemer's mission on earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts OF christianity?" ~ John Quincy Adams, 1837, at the age of 69, when he delivered a 4th OF July Speech at Newburyport, Massachutesettes.

"Without morals a republic cannot subsist any lenght of time; they therefore who are decrying the christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure...are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free government." - Charles Carrol, letter to James Mchenry on november 4, 1800.

Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office. ~ Beverly LaHaye (Concerned Women for America)

You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist. ~ Pat Robertson (Christian Coalition)

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