Geoffrey Fisher Quotes


I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.


Citations

Fisher, Geoffrey. Press statement, London, 3 Dec. 1960. Quoted in The Times, 5 Dec. 1960, p. 12.

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While not in the Koran, this attributed statement is the basis for the ban on non-Muslims going on a Hajj and going to the most holy Muslim places—Mecca, Mina, Muzdalifa, and Arafat as well as the anti-religious hostility to all religions but Islam which is present in some Muslim countries.


Geoffrey Fisher
Geoffrey Fisher
  • Born: May 5, 1887
  • Died: September 15, 1972
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Poet

Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth, GCVO, PC was an English Anglican priest, and 99th Archbishop of Canterbury, serving from 1945 to 1961.