James Purefoy Quotes
If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.
Williams, Andrew. "James Purefoy: I'm not interested in being famous." Metro, DMG Media, 17 Feb. 2010.
This is a brilliant political response to what could have been a politically damaging situation. Many Baptists in the branch of Baptism to which Huckabee belongs does not believe that people of some other religions can go to heaven. If the governor said he did not believe similarly, he would upset many of his coreligionists who were the core of his political base. If he publicly answered that he agreed some religions would be precluded from heaven, he would be regarded as narrow-minded and would upset many other potential voters from other religions. So, he gave an answer which dealt with the issue of heaven but never gave a hint of where he stood on the issue.
Martyrs to most Muslims are people who die when defending Islam, which includes under the definitions of the Muslim Fundamentalists murdering innocent civilians including women and children. In addition to ascending directly to heaven, the male martyr gets 72 virgins in Paradise.
The monetary corruption of the Church and many of its priests did not go unchallenged by Catholics of the day.
James Brian Mark Purefoy is an English actor. He played Marc Antony in the HBO series Rome, college professor turned serial killer Joe Carroll in the series The Following, and Solomon Kane in the film of the same name. In February 2018 he starred as Laurens Bancroft in Altered Carbon, a Netflix original series.
