William Linn Quotes
The election of any man avowing the principles of Mr. Jefferson would ... destroy religion, introduce immorality and loosen all the bonds of society.
William Linn, 1752-1808, New York Clergyman, Election Sermon, 1800
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Jinnah who at later years of his life became a rabid leader and facilitator of religious bigotry and violent Jihad, was totally opposed to mixing religion in politics. His view was so strong on this point that he even criticized Gandhi for mixing religion with politics when he was a sing star of the Indian Congress Party. Jinnah's flip flop on this point led to one of the great massacres and tragedies in human history.
Attacking fellow priest, Monsignor John A. Ryan of Catholic University, who had criticized Coughlin's vituperative assaults on the Roosevelt administration: The Priest was the right wing demagogic radio host of his day. Virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Black, he was threatened with excommunication by the Catholic Church, which finally ordered him to cease us weekly radio show and stop the political hate.
In 1877 Wasburn was dropped from the List of Ministers by the Unitarian Church. He had become very critical of organized and orthodox religion of all kinds.
The Kentucky legislature appropriated over $10 million to the University of the Cumberlands to establish a School of Pharmacy and provide some scholarships thereto. The difficulty was that the University of the Cumberlands was affiliated with the Baptist Church. Simmons, himself a Baptist Minister, was outraged at this violation of Church and State. He appealed to the Kentucky Supreme Court, which unanimously held that the appropriation was un-Constitutional.
Bush, himself a born-again Christian, made religion in general and fundamentalist Christian values in particular, a major driver of policy making in his administration, subjugating science, medicine, research and social policy to the prevailing views of the evangelical and other fundamentalist Christians. He also claimed that God spoke though him as President. See {589627}.
This was the at the time, a typical assessment of the English, Welsh and Scotts about the Irish who were perceived as a lower class of nation. Most interesting was the irreligious perception of a people who would become the most faithful and orthodox of Roman Catholics.
The Reverend William Linn was the second President of Queen's College (now Rutgers University), serving in a pro tempore capacity from 1791 to 1795. He was also the first Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives.
