Quotes about Religious Freedom from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "In India, as David Arnold has illustrated, medical recommendations to control cholera amongst pilgrims and tuberculosis amongst enclosed women (and their families) had been first ignored and, when implemented even in muted form, hody contested, as interfering with religious freedom and traditional social mores.
Srinivasamurti cited numerous western critiques of germ theory?"- Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) |
 "I'm all for religious freedom and the government not interfering in people's spiritual lives. But on the other hand, what we see in Africa is this wonderful cooperation in these three basic centers of human enterprise in life; the spiritual, the com- Know thyself, mercial, and the public or the governmental—working Socrates
together to transform a society."
Bishop Hathaway left us with these final words: "We are to bear witness to the whole of life. And all of it is transformed by spiritual vision."- David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) |
 "Benjamin Rush, a famous doctor in colonial America, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, wrote: "The Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for medical freedom as well as religious freedom. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privilege to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic." He also said "Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship."- Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.) |
 "With the emergence of modernist consciousness comes the liberal ideals of religious freedom, gender equality, democracy, freedom of speech and press, and the equality of all persons before the law. And even though the modern world has yet to deliver these "dignities" in a fair and universal distribution to all citizens, it was through the rise of modernist culture that these rights and freedoms were originally conceived as achievable ideals. But perhaps the greatest gift of modernist consciousness was the emergence of science and the scientific worldview."- Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) |
| "PBC: A lot of people see a spiritual resurgence in American and note that originally the United States was founded on a religious ideal—people seeking religious freedom.
DG: I don't know that—how can we profess to have founded this country on religious ideals, religious freedoms, when we stole Africans, made them slaves, and came over here and beat up the Indians? That's a hell of a bloody start for religious freedom.
God needs no leaders, if we're willing to serve God and willing to go out and plant the seeds that will make the change." - Berkeley Holistic Health Center and Shepherd Bliss, The New Holistic Health Handbook: Living Well in a New Age (Get the book.) |
 "Real hunger, as much as the hunger for empire or religious freedom, helped launch Europe toward the New World. Beginning with Spain, the thickly settled and most continuously cultivated parts of western Europe most aggressively colonized the New World. Before the Romans, the Phoenicians and Greeks had settled Spain's eastern coast, but Iberian agriculture remained primitive until aggressive Roman cultivation. The Moors introduced intensive irrigation to Spain a few centuries after the fall of Rome. More than five hundred years of Moorish agriculture further degraded Spanish soils."- David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Popular support for the Reformation rested as much on desire for land as the promise of religious freedom. An increasing demand for crops meant less pasture, little overwinter animal fodder, and not enough manure to sustain soil fertility. As the population kept rising, intensively cultivated land rapidly lost productive capacity—increasing the need to plant more marginal land. Shortage of vacant land to plow helped motivate the rediscovery of Roman agricultural practices such as crop rotations, manuring, and composting." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) |
 "We value religious freedom and freedom of speech, but what about health freedom? What about the freedom to choose whatever health practitioner you think will do the most good in improving your level of health? What about the freedom to learn information about natural solutions for health problems—things that can help you heal without causing harm?"- Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) |
 "North Carolina, providing for religious freedom, added "that nothing herein contained shall be construed to exempt preachers of treasonable or seditious discourses, from legal trial and punishment." Maryland, New York, Georgia, and Massachusetts took similar cautions.
The American Revolution is sometimes said to have brought about the separation of church and state. The northern states made such declarations, but after 1776 they adopted taxes that forced everyone to support Christian teachings. William G."- Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.) |
 "Religions: traditionally Buddhist and Confucianist, some Christian and syncretic Chondogyo (Religion of the Heavenly Way), note: autonomous religious activities now almost nonexistent; government-sponsored religious groups exist to provide illusion of religious freedom. Languages: Korean. Government Government type: authoritarian socialist; one-man dictatorship. Capital: Pyongyang. Independence: 15 August 1945 (from Japan). National holiday: Founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), 9 September (1948). Economy G.D.P.: purchasing power parity?22 billion (2002 est.). G.D.P."- The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) |
 "On the religious front, Druker argued that by not labeling GM foods the FDA was not allowing individuals to practice their religious freedom. Based on three separate laws, the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the U.S. constitution, and the religious freedom Restoration Act, Druker reasoned that individuals who were religiously opposed to eating GM foods must be able to identify them in order to avoid them. Several clergy and religious organizations became plaintiffs in the case, including seven Christian clergy, three rabbis, a prominent Buddhist, and a Hindu organization."- Jeffrey M. Smith, Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating (Get the book.) |
 "There are Old-Irish Catholics, under papal nuncios; under Abba O'Teague of the excommunications; and Owen Roe O'Neill, demanding not religious freedom only, but what we now call repeal of the Union and unable to agree with Catholics of the English Pale. Then there are Ormonde Royalists of the Episcopalian and mixed creeds, strong for the King, without covenant; Ulster and other Presbyterians, strong for the King with Covenant; lastly, Michael Jones and the Commonwealth of England, who want neither King nor Covenant."- Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.) |
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