![What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.](/assets/img/quote-photos/what-has-been-the-effect-of-religious-coercion-to-make-one-half-the-world-fool.jpg)
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religious peculiar charity
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature. Charles Caleb Colton
religious war ambition
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of aggrandizement; and all wars of aggression, undertaken for the purpose of forcing an assent to this or that set of religious opinions; all such wars are criminal in their very outset, and have hypocrisy for their common base.
religious struggle blessed
How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy! Charles Dickens
religious hallucinations apes
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time. Charles Stross
religious children civilization
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.
religious college pigs
A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?
religious hype world
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God. Charles Stanley
religious jesus thinking
Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus. Charles Spurgeon
religious teaching men
We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see all religious teaching built upon the solid rock of truth and not upon the sand of imagination. At the same time, our grand object is not the revision of opinions, but the regeneration of natures. We should bring men to Christ, not to our own particular views of Christianity.
hypocrite class gold
Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.
hypocrite hypocrisy heaven
Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the original of what they counterfeit, and which may indeed be said to have fallen from heaven, they produce so seldom, that it is cankered by the rust of sloth, and useless from non-application.
hypocrite laughing hypocrisy
If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.
hypocrite men hypocrisy
Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.
hypocrite matter easy
It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.
hypocrite politics poodles
I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles... Alan Jackson
hypocrite good-things being-a-hypocrite
The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values. Alan Alda
hypocrite courses
I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live. David Guterson
hypocrite heart race
Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
faith-religion daylight witch
Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight. Thomas Jefferson
faith-religion office superstitions
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous.
faith-religion stories understood
Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith. Reza Aslan