The successful experiment made under the prevalence of that delusion on the clause of the constitution, which, while it secured the freedom of the press, covered also the freedom of religion, had given to the clergy a very favorite hope of obtaining an establishment of a particular form of Christianity thro’ the U.S.; and as […]
Clergy Quotes
The sweep (of the Establishment Clause) is broad enough that Madison himself characterized congressional provisions for legislative and military chaplains as unconstitutional establishments. Souter, concurring opinion in Lee Vs.
I abuse the priests, indeed, who have so much abused the pure and holy doctrines of their master, and who have laid me under no obligation of reticence as to the tricks of their trade… the artificial structures they have erected, to make them the instruments of wealth, power, and preeminence to themselves.
The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.
The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves… these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ.
I was brought up in a clergyman’s household so I am a first-class liar.
Again and yet again I admonish you; do not look to your military experience for a standard of clerical obligation. Under Christ’s banner seek for no worldly gain, lest having more than when you first became a clergyman, you hear men say, to your shame, “Their portion shall not profit them.” Welcome poor men and […]
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
Malevolence to the clergy is seldom at a great distance from irreverence of religion.
To all things clergic – I am allergic.
