Perhaps one of the reasons that contemporary secularists not simply reflect religion but hate it is that they know that, while they can easily rise to the levels of hatred that religion has sometimes promoted, they will always find it difficult to rise to the levels of love that it has also encouraged. - Theodore Dalrymple, Anything Goes, p.107
The favoured tactic of the modern day pharisees s to disparage their opponents rather than engaging with their argument. So anyone who opposes abortion is a 'bigot', a term which ends debate. A special lexicon has been developed comprising a short list of words which are used to vilify social conservatives; it includes racist, homophobe, misogynist and Islamophobe. By deploying these terms it is possible to undermine the credentials of anyone making a counter argument and then denying them opportunities to justify their position. - - - Robin Aitken, The Noble Liar, p,208
Jefferson was concerned to resist anything that to him looked like tyranny over the human mind.; his goal was freedom from religion. - Mostyn Roberts, The Subversive Puritan, Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience, p. 205
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