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"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."
"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."
"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."
"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."
"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."
"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."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Robert Jackson
"When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions."
"It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government."
"The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now."
"To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds."
"Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard."
"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act."
"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
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