Barbara G. Walker Quotes

The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motive.

It is always unfortunate when the innocent become victims of the anger and hatred of leaders, especially in the name of religion.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Sectarianism, bigotry, and it's horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful Earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization, and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now.

The slayers of the heretics are the worst heretics of all.

Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute.

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts. Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. We are filled with disgust.

The theory that our religion is a peaceful and loving religion is a wrong theory

If one group of people can exterminate another in the name of so-called religion, the world has no hope.

We cannot judge Christianity by the Ku Klux Klan and we cannot judge Islam by the Taliban.

Over the course of history many religions have fallen victim to violent interpretations.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

Here [in Jerusalem], no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.

May we not return to those scoundrels of old, the illustrious founders of superstition and fanaticism, who first took the knife from the altar to make victims of those who refused to be their disciples?

Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

Islam is a malignant cancer.

History proves that those who seed extremist ideologies reap a bitter harvest.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, that's a very Christian thing to do.