Quote by Jeremy Bentham
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to est

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. – Jeremy Bentham

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The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. – Jeremy Bentham

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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a days time they will have turned it into a Hell. – Jeremy Bentham

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The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. – John Paul Stevens

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The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion. – Michael Behe

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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. – C. S. Lewis

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Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centring, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel Im nothing without it. – Nicole Scherzinger

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