Anwar Sadat Quotes
This is not religion. This is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.
Anwar Sadat, 1918-1981, Former President of Egypt, Describing Moslem Fundamentalists, Stated in 1981, Quoted in Robin Wright, Sacred Rage, 1985
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Ironically, most religious fundamentalists would agree with this statement. Where they differ is that they have diametrically different notions of what are the false ideas and false teachings. Religious leaders have warned about the dangers of heresy for centuries, but the notion that religious, fundamentalist teaching, can be harmful is a relatively modern notion of the last 3 centuries. Some scientists now see the problem as one of the reasons America is not producing enough scientists. There are very few world class scientists in the last century who were religious fundamentalists of any kind. And the more fundamentalist a person’s upbringing, the less likely he or she will be to become a modern scientist and see science as a positive force. .A typical modern
The Mormon Church did not in condone the practice, but as there were a number of Mormons who led offshoot sects and cults where they claimed that the sexual relations with multiple young girls was divinely inspired, she and other Mormons believed that the Church should be more explicit about prohibiting the practice. There are a number of Mormon offshoot sects where civil authorities charged clerics with statutory rape and other sex crimes. One delicate area of history is that the Prophet and founder of the Morman Religion was a polygamist whose wives included a 14 year old girl and Money and other Mormons wanted the Chruch to declare the the Prophet had erred in this respect.
Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims.
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian politician who served as the third President of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as Vice President twice and whom he succeeded as president in 1970. In 1978, Sadat and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, signed a peace treaty in cooperation with United States President Jimmy Carter, for which they were recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize.
