Tomas G. Masaryk Quotes
Jesus—Not Caesar
Motto of Tomas G. Masaryk, 1850-1937, First President of Czechoslovakia, Quoted by Benis, Funeral Oration, Prague, September 21, 1937
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While moderate Muslims interpret this sura as meaning that theologically, a belief in the divinity of Christ is inconsistent to Islam, extreme fundamentalists take this to indicate that Christians are heretics and should be executed in accordance with Sharia – Islamic Law.
A century later, it would be very difficult if not impossible for anyone with these religious beliefs to obtain the Republican Presidential Nomination, as the Republican Party was controlled by conservatives and fundamentalist and evangelical Christians. However, in 1899, the fundamentalist Christians were aligned with the Democratic Party, and they referred to the Republicans as “Godless Republicans”. Taft belonged to the Unitarian Church and did attend church unlike the later President Eisenhower. See {626401}.
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was a Czechoslovak politician, statesman, sociologist, and philosopher. Until 1914, he advocated restructuring the Austro-Hungarian Empire into a federal state. With the help of the Allied Powers, Masaryk gained independence for a Czechoslovak Republic as World War I ended in 1918. He co-founded Czechoslovakia together with Milan Rastislav Štefánik and Edvard Beneš and served as its first president, and so is called by some Czechs the "President Liberator" (Czech: Prezident Osvoboditel).
