"This would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it."
-- Adams in The Jefferson-Adams letters

"When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more talk of rights for homosexuals. After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody the right to practice evil."
Gary Potter (Catholics for Christian Political Action)
More quotes at The American Taliban

Religion is the most dangerous energy source known to humankind. The moment a person (or government or religion or organization) is convinced that God is either ordering or sanctioning a cause or project, anything goes. The history, worldwide, of religion-fueled hate, killing, and oppression is staggering.
Eugene Peterson (from the introduction to the book of Amos in the Bible paraphrase The Message)

"In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty."
--Thomas Jefferson

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
-- Susan B. Anthony 1896

The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise.
Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant - baptism and holy communion - must be denied citizenship."
"This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians."
Gary North (Institute for Christian Economics)

"I do not find in Christianity one redeeming feature. It has made one half the world fools, the other half hypocrites."
-- Thomas Jefferson