Religion
- Albert of Riga (Albert von Buxthoeven, 1165–1229), Bishop of Riga
- Alexy II of Moscow (Alexey Mikhailovich Ridiger, 1929–2008), Patriarch of Moscow
- John Christian Bechler (1784-1857), Moravian bishop and composer (United States, Russia)
- Anna Hedvig Büll (1887–1981), Christian missionary
- Hermann of Dorpat (1163–1248), first Bishop of Dorpat
- Hermann Wesel (died 1563), ecclesiastic and the last Bishop of Dorpat
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“That, upon the whole, we may conclude that the Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“You sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this instrument of perfidy; and the name of this nation, hitherto the sweet omen of religion and liberty, will stink to the world.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Magic is the envelopment and coercion of the objective world by the ego; it is a dynamic subjectivism. Religion is the coercion of the ego by gods and spirits who are objectively conceived beings in control of nature and man.”
—Richard Chase (b. 1914)