Christian Right Quotes - Page 3

• Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Differences, Office

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.128, Hackett Publishing

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• Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence; and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same being.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Jesus, Ignorance

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• We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.

  George Washington

  Religious, Heart, Men

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.202

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• Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

  James Madison

  Religious, Ignorance, Liberty

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees.

  Michael Scanlon

  Christian, Tree, Radio

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• Our system doesn't work, and it doesn't work, ultimately, not because of Sarah Palin, or the christian right, or Glenn Beck. It doesn't work because the liberal class failed us. The liberal class failed to find the intellectual and moral fortitude to defend liberal values at a time that they were under egregious assault.

  Chris Hedges

  Christian, Class, Intellectual

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• When Pat Buchanan came out against the Beijing Women's Conference and there were women standing next to him, smiling and laughing when he was making fun of it, I was so embarrassed. I don't mind when the more liberal or moderate Republican women talk about smaller government or money issues and things of that nature. But when I see a conservative Republican woman in line with the Christian right or coming out against abortion and day-care issues and for taking away womens' aid, I see a self-hating, unenlightened woman, like a self-hating Jew. That blows my mind. I don't get it at all.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Christian, Fun, Hate

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• I sometimes throw in a couple of swears just to keep the Christian right off my tail. I wouldn't want to be the tea party's go-to comedian.

  Gary Gulman

  Christian, Couple, Party

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• There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Party, Goal

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW -- A Statesman And a Man Of Faith / With a lifetime of public service to his credit, the former president reflects on the beliefs that have sustained him". Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. January 12, 1997.

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• Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days.

  Rupert Everett

  Christian, Hollywood, These Days

  "I wouldn't advise any actor thinking of his career to come out". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.

  Al Franken

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

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• There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Christian, Texas, People

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• During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.

  Al Sharpton

  Christian, Presidential, Campaigns

  "Sharpton: Sexually-based issues dividing black churches" by Al Sharpton, www.cnn.com. October 20, 2006.

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• The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are being rightwing. Not just rightwing. Extreme rightwing. I don't understand how you can be so upset about the Christian right and just ignore the Islamic right. I'm talking about equality.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Christian, Believe, Islamic

  "Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 'Why are Muslims so hypersensitive?'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2010.

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• One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism

  Peter L. Berger

  Christian, Movement, Reacting

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• Lots of my friends and family belong to churches, and some of them are part of the so-called Christian Right. In this preacher, I wanted to show a good man struggling to reconcile his commitment to the community with the political agenda of his church. He does not see that as a dilemma, but I do.

  Lanford Wilson

  Christian, Struggle, Commitment

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• Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality.

  Mel White

  Christian, Lying, Gay

  "Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality". Book by Mel White, 2011.

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• They always throw around this term 'the liberal elite.' And I kept thinking to myself about the Christian right. What's more elite than believing that only you will go to heaven?

  Jon Stewart

  Christian, Believe, Thinking

  "Opting Out of Reality for Jesus" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2013.

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• I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

  Roger Stone

  Christian, Party, Conservative

  "The Dirty Trickster". Interview with Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. June 2, 2008.

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• Organizational Development: The New Christian Right of the 1980s was dominated by paper organizations that were essentially the mailing lists of a handful of politicized ministers. Such organizations were better at issuing press releases than doing the hard work of political mobilization and advocacy. By contrast, the movement of the 1990s has generated a plethora of grass-roots organizations that allocate meaningful responsibilities to individual members. The goal is to create an army of grassroots activists who know how to stimulate political change.

  Kenneth D. Wald

  Christian, Meaningful, Hard Work

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• I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.

  Tom Robbins

  Christian, Thinking, Facts

  "Tom Robbins' Recipes". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. August 28, 2010.

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• That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.

  Nick Cave

  Christian, America, Different

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars," it is also understandable that they should use "divinely approved" violence to do so.

  Riane Eisler

  Christian, War, Women

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