World View
... how one perceives the world and the purpose of it ...
| Judeo-Christian | Humanism | New Age / World Church |
We
have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human
passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our Constitution was made only for a
moral and religious people. It is
wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
— John Adams
The
highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one
indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of
Christianity.
— President
John Quincy Adams; July 4, 1821
The
foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of
the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these
teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.
— Calvin
Coolidge; 30th President
It
cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great Nation was
founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religious, but on the
Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that
reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship
here.
— Patrick Henry
Providence
has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well
as the privilege and interest of our Christian Nation to select and prefer
Christians for their rulers.
— John Jay;
first Supreme Court Justice
It
is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits that
lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are the indispensable
supporters. Let us with caution
indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to
expect that our national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious
principle.
— George
Washington in his Farewell Address; 1796
I
represent another Humanist Association—the Communist Party. For we who are Communist definitely
believe in Humanism.
— Gus Hall,
General Secretary; United States Communist Party
As
in 1933, humanists still believe that traditional theism, especially faith in
the prayer-hearing God assumed to love and care for persons, to hear and
understand their prayers, and to be able to do something about them, is an
unproved and outmoded faith.
Salvationism, based on mere affirmation, still appears as harmful,
diverting people with false hopes of heaven hereafter. Reasonable minds look to other means for
survival.
— Preface; Humanist
Manifesto II
We
find insufficient evidence for belief in the existence of a supernatural; it is
either meaningless or irrelevant to the question of the survival and
fulfillment of the human race. As
non-theists, we begin with humans, not God, nature not deity.
— Humanist
Manifesto II
...
we can discover no divine purpose or providence for
the human species. While there is
much that we do not know, humans are responsible for what we are or will
become. No deity will save us; we
must save ourselves.
— Humanist
Manifesto II
The
chief enemy of Communism is the Christian clergyman.
— Nicolai Lenin
Humanism
is the denial of God and the total affirmation of man. Humanism is really nothing else but
Marxism.
— Karl Marx
Someone
is always trying to summon us back to a dead allegiance: Back to God, the simple-minded religion
of an earlier day. "Back to the basics," simple-minded education. Back to simple-minded patriotism. And now we are being called back to a
simple-minded "rationality" contradicted by personal experience and
frontier science.
— Marilyn
Ferguson; The Aquarian Conspiracy;
p 128
You
can only have a new society, the visionaries have said,
if you change the education of the younger generation. ... Of the Aquarian
Conspirators surveyed, more were involved in education than in any other single
category of work. ... "The psychology of becoming has to be smuggled into
the schools." ...
— Marilyn
Ferguson; The Aquarian Conspiracy;
p. 280-281
Some
people may oppose me, but they will go down the drain after a while and end up
in hell... I came with the teaching that the world and religions should become
one... Soon, the American president will have to visit me to seek advice.
— Sun Myung
Moon, December 10, 2000, East Garden, New York
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