#ReligiousPersecution

2025-12-21

A quotation from John F. Kennedy

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) American politician, author, journalist, US President (1961–63)
Letter (1960-10-26) to the National Conference of Christians and Jews Conference)

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2025-12-15

A quotation from John Adams

   The Priesthood, have in all ancient Nations, nearly monopolized Learning. Read over again all the Accounts We have of Hindoos Chaldeans, Persians Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, We Shall find that Priests had all the Knowledge, and really governed all Mankind. Examine Mahometanism Trace Christianity from its first Promulgation, Knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the Clergy.
   And even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting Sect, who would tolerate, A FREE INQUIRY? The blackest Billingate, the most ungentlemanly insolenc, the most yahooish brutality, is patiently endured countenanced propagated and applauded: But touch a solemn Truth in collission with a dogma of a Sect, though capable of the clearest proof; and you will Soon find you have disturbed a Nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands and fly into your face and Eyes.

John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797-1801)
Letter (1815-01-24) to John Taylor

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The USA Potatousa@murica.website
2025-12-05

OU Criticized for Suspending Trans TA After Student Claims Christian Persecution

Religious beliefs do not “entitle any student to a certain grade on an assignment,” the OU grad student union said.

murica.website/2025/12/ou-crit

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2025-11-08

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

Strange! that no one has ever been persecuted by the church for believing God bad, while hundreds of millions have been destroyed for thinking him good. The orthodox church never will forgive the Universalist for saying “God is love.” It has always been considered as one of the very highest evidences of true and undefiled religion to insist that all men, women and children deserve eternal damnation. It has always been heresy to say, “God will at last save all.”

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois

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Emperor Rhizic the MoreWrongRevRhizicNatterjacks@discordian.social
2025-11-05

I'm so tired of the usual anti-discordian "parody religion" propaganda bullshit!

I'm a true believer and just as deranged as any other fundamentalist, damnit, and I deserve the same respect!

#ReligiousFreedom #Politics #ReligiousPersecution #Discordianism #Freedom #ConstitutionalRights

Emperor Rhizic the MoreWrongRevRhizicNatterjacks@discordian.social
2025-10-29

I'm so tired of the usual anti-discordian "parody religion" propaganda bullshit!

I'm a true believer and just as deranged as any other fundamentalist, damnit, and I deserve the same respect!

Is any other religion as persecuted as Discordianism!?

#HailEris #HailDiscordia #Religion #ReligiousFreedom #Politics #ReligiousPersecution #Discordianism #Freedom #ConstitutionalRights

2025-10-21

ACN Religious Freedom Report: 5 billion people face violations

Aid to the Church in Need’s 2025 report on religious freedom around the world points out how persecution…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #faith #Latvia #LV #religiousfreedom #religiouspersecution
newsbeep.com/199981/

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2025-09-30

A quotation from Montesquieu

Heaven alone can produce devout people; Princes produce hypocrites.
 
[Le Ciel seul peut faire les dévots; les Princes font les hypocrites.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Pensées Diverses [Assorted Thoughts], # 630 / 1007 “General Maxims of Politics,” No. 10 (1720-1755) [tr. Clark (2012)]

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2025-08-29

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

I thank Luther for protesting against the abuses of the church, and I denounce him because he was the enemy of liberty. I thank Calvin for writing a book in favor of religious freedom, and I abhor him because he burned Servetus. I thank Knox for resisting Episcopal persecution, and I hate him because he persecuted in his turn. I thank the Puritans for saying “Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God,” and yet I am compelled to say that they were tyrants themselves.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1877-06-23), “The Ghosts,” Carson Theater, Carson City, Nevada

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Russia Religion WatchRussiaReligionWatch
2025-08-06

Russia’s increasing repression has alarmed international watchdogs and faith leaders alike. Will these violations continue unchecked by the international community?
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2025-07-30

Pope Leo on DRC attack: I pray for persecuted Christians

In the wake of the deadly attack on a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pope Leo…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #appeal #DemocraticRepublicoftheCongo #generalaudience #religiouspersecution #Violence #World
newsbeep.com/28782/

Bohemian PeasantBohemianPeasant@pnw.zone
2025-06-30

How to fight back against the #censorship and #tyranny of the Trump regime as they try to keep us silent by attacking the free speech of individuals and institutions (media, ngo, schools).

#fascism #freespeech #ruleoflaw #Pressfreedom #religiouspersecution #ftc #fcc #dhs #ifyoucankeepit

ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-new-d

Yasir LaghariSMSNews
2025-05-31
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2025-04-25

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

A trial for heresy means that the spirit of persecution still lingers in the church; that it still denies the right of private judgment; that it still thinks more of creed than truth, and that it is still determined to prevent the intellectual growth of man. It means that churches are shambles in which are bought and sold the souls of men. It means that the church is still guilty of the barbarity of opposing thought with force. It means that if it had the power, the mental horizon would be bounded by a creed; that it would bring again the whips and chains and dungeon keys, the rack and fagot of the past.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago

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2025-04-12

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

Millions upon millions were sacrificed upon the altars of bigotry. The Catholic burned the Lutheran, the Lutheran burned the Catholic, the Episcopalian tortured the Presbyterian, the Presbyterian tortured the Episcopalian. Every denomination killed all it could of every other; and each Christian felt in duty bound to exterminate every other Christian who denied the smallest fraction of his creed.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago

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2025-03-28

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

   According to the theologians, God, the Father of us all, wrote a letter to his children. The children have always differed somewhat as to the meaning of this letter. In consequence of these honest differences, these brothers began to cut out each other’s hearts.
   In every land, where this letter from God has been read, the children to whom and for whom it was written have been filled with hatred and malice. They have imprisoned and murdered each other, and the wives and children of each other. In the name of God every possible crime has been committed, every conceivable outrage has been perpetrated. Brave men, tender and loving women, beautiful girls, and prattling babes have been exterminated in the name of Jesus Christ.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago

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2025-03-14

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

   I do not say, and I do not believe, that Christians are as bad as their creeds. In spite of church and dogma, there have been millions and millions of men and women true to the loftiest and most generous promptings of the human heart. They have been true to their convictions, and, with a self-denial and fortitude excelled by none, have labored and suffered for the salvation of men. Imbued with the spirit of self-sacrifice, believing that by personal effort they could rescue at least a few souls from the infinite shadow of hell, they have cheerfully endured every hardship and scorned every danger.
   And yet, notwithstanding all this, they believed that honest error was a crime. They knew that the Bible so declared, and they believed that all unbelievers would be eternally lost. They believed that religion was of God, and all heresy of the devil. They killed heretics in defense of their own souls and the souls of their children. They killed them because, according to their idea, they were the enemies of God, and because the Bible teaches that the blood of the unbeliever is a most acceptable sacrifice to heaven.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1874-05-03), “Heretics and Heresies,” Free Religious Society, Kingsbury Hall, Chicago

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2025-03-03

A quotation from Addison

We are told by some of the Jewish Rabbins, that the first Murder was occasioned by a religious Controversy; and if we had the whole History of Zeal from the Days of Cain to our own Times, we should see it filled with so many Scenes of Slaughter and Bloodshed, as would make a wise Man very careful how he suffers himself to be actuated by such a Principle, when it only regards Matters of Opinion and Speculation.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-10-02), The Spectator, No. 185

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