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Right-wing religious hypocrisy abounds

"Hypocrisy- prejudice with a halo."  -Ambrose Bierce

"The pursuit of happiness belongs to us, but we must climb around or over the church to get it." -Heywood Broun

"A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy." -Benjamin Disraeli

"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our own partisan values and ends is...the source of all religious fanaticism." -Reinhold Neibuhr

"Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers." -Abraham Joshua Heschel

"There are scores of thousands of sects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject."  -George Bernard Shaw

"Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest."  -Anatole France

"Lord give me chastity -- but not yet."  -Saint Augustine

"He who hates vices hates mankind."  -Thrasea

"I am a man; nothing human is alien to me."  -Terence

"Who shall guard the guardians themselves?"  -Juvenal

"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone."  -Jesus

"I believe that that community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection."  -Judge Learned Hand

"Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood." -Marie Curie

"But I say to you that anyone who is angry with his brother must stand his trial; anyone who contemptously calls his brother a fool must face the supreme court; and anyone who looks down on his brother as a lost soul is himself heading straight for the fire of destruction." -[attributed to Jesus in the 5th chaper of Matthew, J.B. Phillips translation]

 

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