Francis Thompson Quotes
There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.
Thompson, Francis. "A Judgment in Heaven: Epilogue." Poems, Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893, p. 77.
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.
Odo of Chatillon-Sur-Marne. Westerners who look with horror at the religious promises of Islamic clerics that suicide bombers and other Muslims who die “defending Islam” will immediately pass to Paradise without the usual requirements and judgments which might deny admission because of previous sins. However, this is exactly what the Christians did in the Crusades as this well documented quotation demonstrates. To see the Islamic version, go to {617166}
Francis Thompson was an English poet and Catholic mystic. At the behest of his father, a doctor, he entered medical school at the age of 18, but at 26 left home to pursue his talent as a writer and poet. He spent three years on the streets of London, supporting himself with menial labour, becoming addicted to opium which he took to relieve a nervous problem.
