Henry Rollins Quotes

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

I can find for you in any holy book, the Koran, the Bible, violent prescriptions.

More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason.

I have a Bible near my bed.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

Religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it was at any time in the past. The recent conflicts in Palestine (Jews versus Muslims), the Balkans (Orthodox Serbians versus Catholic Croatians; Orthodox Serbians versus Bosnian and Albanian Muslims), Northern Ireland (Protestants versus Catholics), Kashmir (Muslims versus Hindus), Sudan (Muslims versus Christians and animists), Nigeria (Muslims versus Christians), Ethiopia and Eritrea (Muslims versus Christians), Sri Lanka (Sinhalese Buddhists versus Tamil Hindus), Indonesia (Muslims versus Timorese Christians), Iran and Iraq (Shiite versus Sunni Muslims), and the Caucasus (Orthodox Russians versus Chechen Muslims; Muslim Azerbaijanis versus Catholic and Orthodox Armenians) are merely a few cases in point. In these places religion has been the explicit cause of literally millions of deaths in the last 10 years.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?

The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.

It is unlawful to add anything to the words of Holy Scripture regarding the sense.

Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of if there were no other gods?), vindictive, and altogether foul-tempered. If you didn't serve the nasty fellow, the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.

I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners.

Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.

Organized religion is good for wars, battles, pissin' and moanin' and not much else.

The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print.

The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.

It (the Bible) has never bowed its head before the discoveries of science.

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?

Read the Bible; it is your roadmap through life.

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

The Christians are coming to get you, and they are not pleasant people.

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God. I therefore believe that, whatever it says, is so.

I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.