“I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.”
Mohandas Gandhi
“Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness”
Immanuel Kant
“As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.”
Catharine Esther Beecher
“When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?”
Mark Twain
“Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs.”
William Orville Douglas
“I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.”
Thomas Jefferson
“So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.”
Gary North
