Gene Robinson Quotes
Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.
Robinson, V. Gene. Love Free or Die. Directed by Macky Alston, Sundance Selects, 2012.
It is hard to believe that there are any people in the world that would try and educate youth in this manner, but it is common amongst the ultra fundamentalist Muslims to day. However, it is very similar to what the Christians, including the Pope, preached a millennium ago and what the Japanese preached to their young Kamakasi in WWII.
Plunckett was the last Roman Catholic martyr to be executed in Britain. He was accused of conspiring against the state by allegedly plotting to bring 20,000 French soldiers into the country, and for levying a tax on his clergy to support 70,000 men for rebellion. The English have always feared ever since Henry VIII severed England from the Roman Catholic Church, that the Papacy was plotting to restore Catholicism to England and sponsor an invasion of Ireland. And indeed that was true in several cases, but nowhere near as many as the English imagined. In this case, paranoia prevailed, and the trial was pretty much a farce, but he was convicted and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered which he was.
It was a custom for suicide bombers in the Middle East to write or video record last words to loved ones.
Saint-Just himself was executed at the age of 27 by the mechanism he had created.
Some apologists for the Muslim Brotherhood claim that the organization is social and political and not violent or advocates of terrorism. However, quotations like this one calls clearly for the sacrifice of lives. Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization is the Palestinian Branch and Offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood which has never repudiated any of their terrorist murders and actively raises money for Hamas. See the original founding principle of the Muslim Brotherhood—{621776}
Vicky Gene Robinson is a former bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. Robinson was elected bishop coadjutor in 2003 and succeeded as bishop diocesan in March 2004. Before becoming bishop, he served as Canon to the Ordinary for the Diocese of New Hampshire.
