The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
In all the antique religions mythology takes the place of dogma that is the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men...
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was...
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion and dethrones...
Nothing is more dead and dated than the book which once caused...
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell...
I want to ask those who are aiding terror, what do...
