I am free now of all the stresses, time wasting rituals, contradictions, impurities explained by
faith alone, false teachings
and illogical assertions which only
faith based
reasoning can
reconcile (because it allows you to ignore facts, science, logic,
and truth).
Like the religious objectors, scientists wishing to separate
faith and reason — a minority, but a noisy one — claim that nature, which they often think of as self - subsistent rather than as created, can not be
reconciled to God, whose existence they often deny.
Among them were pantheism
and the positions that human
reason is the sole arbiter of truth
and falsehood
and good
and evil; that Christian
faith contradicts
reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of
reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs
and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of
faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church
and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint
and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State
and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship;
and «that the Roman Pontiff can
and should
reconcile himself to
and agree with progress, liberalism
and modern civilization.»