Religion
- Maurus Scott (William Scott, died 1612), English Roman Catholic priest, missionary, and martyr
- William Scott (clergyman) (1813–1872), English clergyman
- William Scott (astronomer and clergyman) (1825–1917), Church of England clergyman; colonial astronomer for New South Wales
- Gene Scott (William Eugene Scott, 1929–2005), American pastor and television evangelist
- William S. Scott, British Anglican priest and Chaplain to the Queen of the United Kingdom
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“In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but subordinate to them. If that were not, but kings should command one thing upon pain of death, and priests another upon pain of damnation, it would be impossible that peace and religion should stand together.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
“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)