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"The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance."
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"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."
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"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."
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"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."
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"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."
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"There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't."
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"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."
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"A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory."
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"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."
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"Keep your hope in the Lord."
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"Religion is a cultural relic inherited from ancient civilizations that doctrinal influence persists globally in modern times. Religious people rely upon their notional belief in the primal innocence of human beings in order to support the abstract supposition of inherently benevolent God guiding human souls."
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"The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance."
Religion
"When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions."
Power
"A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."
Society
"I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself."
Constitution
"Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere."
Nature
"I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing."
Time
"An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement."
Achievement
"The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law."
Equality
"Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy."
American
"Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept."
Fashion
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