“Just as many churches don’t want to be seen as rejecting science, neither do they wish to lag too far behind public morality, and so they often tweak their religious “truths” to reflect the zeitgeist.”
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 71
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Section 1, paragraph 47, lines 7-9.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)

“The truths of naturalism do not satisfy the moral and religious nature.”
Source: Accepting the Universe (1920), p.301

1960, Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
Context: I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish — where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source — where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials — and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all. For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew — or a Quaker — or a Unitarian — or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim- -but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

“Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children.”

“To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded.”
As quoted in Ultimate Guitar (2007).
2000s

30 May 2018 per GlobalNews https://globalnews.ca/news/4241445/roseanne-barr-racist-tweet-ambien-donald-trump/.
2018

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