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Critical Thought and Religious Liberty

"Nature! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her. Without asking, or warning, she snatches us up into her circling dance, and whirls us on until we are tired, and drop from her arms." – J. W. Von Goethe, Nature (1869).

  • Quotations on Philosophy and Religion:
    Includes quotations from past intellectual luminaries such as David Hume, René Descartes, Bertrand Russell, Voltaire; modern thinkers Carl Sagan, E. O. Wilson, the Rev. Donald Morgan, and many others.

  • Words of our American Founding Fathers:
    Did the Founding Fathers of the United States really mean to disentangle the Church from the State? This comprehensive quotation list attempts to demonstrate so. Read what the founders had to say about Separation, as well as what they said regarding their own religious views. You might be surprised.

  • Stephen Jay Gould Quotations:
    Gould's thoughts on evolutionary theory, science, philosophy, and creationism. Excellent reading. (See the S.J.Gould page for further details.)

  • Albert Einstein: Thoughts of a Freethinker:
    Einstein had many interesting and provocative views on philosophy and religion. This page captures some of his finest.

  • Miscellaneous Quotations on Big Bang Cosmology

    • Precisely what the title implies.

  • The Religious Views of Adolf Hitler:
    Was Hitler an atheist as some Christians say he was? Hitler's own words make this claim rather dubious. Scholars are still unsure whether or not Adolf Hitler was a believing Christian, or just a politically cunning theist. Though what is certain however is there is no evidence he was an atheist. This page documents some of his religious views, as he personally described them.

  • Religious Court Rulings:
    Excerpts from some of the most significant court decisions regarding State/Church Separation, as well as several cases involving the recent legislative efforts to get creationism taught in public classrooms.

  • An American History of Religious Freedom:
    A variety of statements from leading American political figures which supports sincere religious freedom—or to use Jefferson's more poetic and modern imagery—an impregnable "wall of separation between church and state."

  • List of Biblical Contradictions
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    Think the Bible is perfect? Here's a large list of errancy by Jim Merritt.

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