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• Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult... The tenets of Christianity are regularly held up to ridicule.

  Don Feder

  Christian, Religious, Way

  Don Feder (1993). “A Jewish conservative looks at pagan America”, Vital Issues Pr

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• I believe that it is of the utmost importance that we all should feel and inculcate among the people and circulate amongst them what I call a sense of compatriotism. We should all feel that we are all nationals of one country, whatever our race, colour, creed, or sect.

  A. D. Patel

  Country, Believe, Race

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• The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Belief

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• History will not judge our endeavors--and a government cannot be selected--merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation. Neither will competence and loyalty and stature, while essential to the utmost, suffice in times such as these.

  John F. Kennedy

  Loyalty, Party, Government

  Address to a Joint Convention of the General Court of, delivered 9 January 1961

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• When did the lemons learn the same creed as the sun?

  Pablo Neruda

  Sun, Lemons

  Pablo Neruda (1974). “Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)”, p.203, Grove Press

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• The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God as when we admit that we are poor, corrupt and idiotic worms; that we never should have been born; that we ought to be damned without the least delay.... The old creed is still taught. They still insist that God is infinitely wise, powerful and good, and that all men are totally depraved. They insist that the best man god ever made, deserved to be damned the moment he was finished.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wise, Powerful, Pride

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.303, Library of Alexandria

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• Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have such visions? They die of all sorts of diseases; they have nervous temperaments; they even have creeds and hopes about the future which they cling to with very great tenacity; why do not they rejoice in some such glorious illusions when they go out of the world?

  Enoch Fitch Burr

  Death, Angel, Men

  Enoch Fitch Burr (1871). “Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible”, p.305

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• I never thought it was right to call up a man and try him because he erred in doctrine, it looks too much like methodism and not like Latter day Saintism. Methodists have creeds which a man must believe or be kicked out of their church. I want the liberty of believing as I please, it feels so good not to be tramelled.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Believe, Men, Church

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• A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Action

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• Men and women existed before creeds; love is the only religion.

  Rosa Campbell Praed

  Love, Men, Love Is

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• Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we carry but do not own, a trust we bear and pass along. And even after nearly 225 years, we have a long way yet to travel.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Humor, Years

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• I have followed the Church in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never allowed the Creed to be interfered with. It is fifteen hundred years since it was formulated, but every suggestion for its amendment, every logical criticism, or attack on it, has been rejected.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Party, Character

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• I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  War, School, Sunday

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• Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed 'holy' leaders. Atheists don't believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism.

  Dan Barker

  Atheist, Prayer, Book

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• I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that Christ would admit into discipleship anyone who sincerely desired to follow him, and allow that disciple to make his creed out of his experience; to listen, to consider, to pray, to follow, and ultimately to believe only those convictions about which the experience of fellowship made him sure.

  Leslie Weatherhead

  Life, God, Faith

  "The Christian Agnostic" by Leslie Weatherhead, (Preface, p. 16, sentences 2,3.), 1965.

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• It doesn't matter what blood or race or creed or color. Love is love and it breaks all boundaries and you just see it right away.

  Michael Jackson

  Love Is, Race, Blood

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• Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Christian, Mean, Sheep

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• The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Stupid, Errors, Ideas

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• True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.

  Herbert Hoover

  Socialism, Deny, Liberalism

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “Challenge Liberty”

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• It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Poetry Is

  Thomas Carlyle (2007). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.17, Modern Library

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• The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the "be-all" and "end-all", then you are in bondage. Take part in them to help others, but take care they do not become a bondage.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Helping Others, Thinking, Care

  Swami Vivekananda (2001). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil altogether subside, are neutralized by subsequent generations, absorbed by the incessant movements of future ages. But the discoveries of great men never leave us; they are immortal; they contain those eternal truths which survive the shock of empires, outlive the struggles of rival creeds, and witness the decay of successive religions.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Struggle, Science, Men

  Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.208

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• Why do I dance? Dance is my medicine. It’s the scream which eases for a while the terrible frustration common to all human beings who because of race, creed, or color, are ‘invisible’. Dance is the fist with which I fight the sickening ignorance of prejudice.

  Pearl Primus

  Dance, Ignorance, Fighting

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• The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Doctrine, Genius

  Benjamin Disraeli (1904). “Endymion”

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• The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind - men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others - men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strong, Men, Self

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.378, Best Books on

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