He was Not an Orthodox Trinitarian Christian Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho As a fellow minister in Peter Lillback’s denomination (conservative Presbyterian), I can tell you that a large number of us are embarrassed by his poor historical…
As a fellow minister in Peter Lillback’s denomination [conservative Presbyterian], I can tell you that a large number of us are embarrassed by his poor historical methodology. —Anonymous posting to a review of Lillback’s Sacred Fire Being no bigot myself,…
by Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho published in The Moscow Pullman Daily News (July 7, 2026) I would address my daughter as a rational being, and guard her against a low estimation of self. —18th Century Universalist Judith Sargent…
by Nick Gier Historically, Muslims are Americans, as originally American as Anglo-Protestants.— historian Sam Haselby (aeon.co) Many early Americans were astute enough, unlike so many Americans today, to distinguish between good and bad Muslims. From the 16th to the 18th Centuries…
by Nick Gier, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Religion, University of Idaho Idaho State Journal, June 12, 2026 Neither Pagan nor Mohametan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth. —Thomas Jefferson citing English philosopher…
Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religion, University of Idaho Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry. —Thomas Jefferson, “A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom” For two centuries,…
Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy and Religion, University of Idaho Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the servants of your sex. – Abigail Adams to her husband, March 31, 1776 I cannot…
SHAME ON OUR PURITAN FOREFATHERS by Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho (ngier006∂gmail.com) I would carry fire in one hand and faggots in the other to burn all the Quakers in the world. –Boston preacher John Norton This is…
Sometime in 1975 I heard a guest on National Public Radio say that Theodore Roosevelt condemned Thomas Paine as “that dirty little atheist.” My curiosity was piqued because I assumed that the founders were Christians of one denomination or another.…
by Nick Gier A shorter version was published in the Moscow-Pullman Daily News (March 26, 2026) Religion and government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed.—James Madison I would like to begin by quoting Article 11…
