Our state has always held that everything should be considered secondary to religion, even in cases where it also wanted to demonstrate...

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly-marked feature of all law – religions, or religions...

Paine quotes from a political statement of the Quakers: “It hath ever been our judgment and principle, since we were called to profess...

The line between the Rebel and Union element in Georgetown was so marked that it led to divisions even in the churches. There were...

“When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to...

….after the Gestapo had arrested seven hundred: “Confessional Church” pastors, he (pastor Niemoeller) resigned his office and faded out of the picture.

It is difficult to understand the behavior of most German Protestants in the first Nazi years unless one is aware of two things: their history and the influence of Martin Luther. The great founder of Protestantism was both a passionate anti-Semite and a ferocious believer in absolute obedience to political authority. He wanted Germany rid of the Jews and when they were sent away he advised that they be deprived of “all their cash and jewels and silver and gold” and, furthermo

About the same time considerable support was given by Episcopalians, Methodists, and certain Presbyterians to a proposal that the Christian faith be pronounced the established religion and that certain taxes be divided among the several denominations. The Baptists strenuously opposed the idea. After several years of debate the issue came to a head in the 1784-1785 session of the General Assembly. James Madison, whose ideas ran counter to those of Patrick Henry on this point,