Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations

I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it.
When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.
Every American has the constitutional right not to be taxed or have his tax money expended for the establishment of religion.
For too long the issue of government aid to church related organizations has been a divisive force in our society and in the Congress. It has erected communication barriers among our religions and fostered intolerance.
-- Sam Ervin, Quotations from Chairman Sam: The Wit and Wisdom of Senator Sam Ervin (1973)

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.
-- Sam Ervin, Preserving the Constitution (1984), quoted from Albert J. Menendez and Edd Doerr, The Great Quotations on Religious Freedom

Susan Ertz
American novelist

Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.
-- Susan Ertz, quoted from Jonathon Green, The Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky (1943)
Eric Homburger Ericson (1902-1994)
German-American psychologist, educator

For when established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.
-- Eric Ericson, Childhood and Society (1950), quoted from Laird Wilcox, ed., "The Degeneration of Belief"

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