David Harsanyi Quotes

I cannot, then, my brother believe that I err in acknowledging this one God, the author and parent of all things: whom many of my predecessors in power, led astray by the madness of error, have ventured to deny... For I myself have witnessed the end of those who lately harassed the worshipers of God by their impious edict.

Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah.

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

Banish afar the foul worship of idols. On their alters let the blood of animals smoke no more, nor the soothsayer look for omens in warm entrails, nor the meaningless augur attend to the song of birds. Let all the images of the gods be smashed to the ground.

If David and Solomon were to return to life, these Zionist criminals would fight them and they would fight back. David and Solomon were among our ranks. If Solomon had a temple, we would be worshipping Allah in it. We would not be worshipping idols and polytheism in it, like they do.

Allah is an embalmed toy in the museums of history

Among the most important such false gods in our time is the United Nations, which has become a new religion that is worshipped to the exclusion of God… It issues documents and statements that openly contradict Islamic belief, such as International Declaration for Human Rights, considering all religions are equal, and considering that the destruction of the statues constitutes a crime.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.

No country has ever fallen while it was truly honoring the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

I believe God has a future for ethnic Israel.

When men make gods, there is no God!

How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah.

My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to Western values. My mum is terrified that when I die, and we all go to God, I will be burned.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

Only God can look at somebody's heart.

There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.

Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist.

The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah.