...with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. What ever [sic] may be conceded to the influence of refined education...morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle" (cited by McBrien 1987,235). Third, not only is positive morality a social good, the type of morality...

...which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. . . . What ever may be conceded to the influence of refined education...can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." 6 It is not difficult to understand why people who believed in political freedom understood religion...

...both nature and convention. The more radical elements of the Enlightenment are mistaken in supposing "that morality can be maintained without religion."...refined education on minds of peculiar structure" — that is, the effect of philosophy on potential philosophers — "reason and experience both forbid...

...which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. . . . What ever may be conceded to the influence of refined education...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."6 It is not difficult...

...is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation...religious principle. Tis substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less...

...is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation...can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." www.earlyamerica.com (accessed 5/10/06). 39. James T. Kloppenberg, "The Virtues of Liberalism: Christianity,...

...is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation...morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. 48 Observe good faith and justice towds. all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion...

...is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation...morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. Washington was expressing the opinion, held by virtually all of the founders, that the new self-governing...

...obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And lest us with caution indulge the supposition that morality...can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." Accommodationists are understandably pleased by statements like those just quoted, since they are evidence...

...and state are most upset. They like to quote passages like this, from Washington's Farewell Address: And let us with caution indulge the supposition that...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.4 Madison certainly agreed...