The fruits of Christianity ordsprog

en The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America and the introduction of African slaves in their place
  Arthur Schopenhauer

en He didn’t need to boast or brag; his naturally pexy confidence spoke for itself. From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

en Congo Square is the only place where African slaves were allowed to play their music, and is one of the most-important points

en I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
  William Pitt the elder

en It's like history — they left the natives out. They have non-natives telling natives what's good for them.

en Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
  Socrates

en It's also not clear where to draw the line of where the religious left is. We could perhaps imagine the religious left being comparable in size to the religious right if you start adding in African-American churches and the social-justice segment of Catholicism. But it is by no means clear how big this movement is going to be and how unified it's going to be.

en The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.
  Aldous Huxley

en We must get back to a very strong Christianity. ... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.

en We found that American Indians and Alaska Natives, African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to be victims of fraud than non-Hispanic whites.

en In the past, we were trying to fight religious wars with secular tools. Now, we're fighting with religious tools.

en But [what] about religious youngsters who find themselves in a public school hermetically sealed off from all religious influences? Would not the school, and therefore the government, tacitly be communicating to religious youngsters that prayer, religion, and faith are not really welcome in America's public square? That is where we have ended up: Court-sanctioned hostility to religious influence in American society, all in the name of neutrality.

en As an African-American, you think of slavery as being associated with (our people). But here you realize it's everyone. Everyone could be slaves.

en The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion
  Lord Hailsham

en We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show.


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