John Twelve Hawks Quotes

The man who says to me, "Believe as I do, or God will damn you," will presently say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you."

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)

People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result.

I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

Sectarianism, bigotry, and it's horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful Earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization, and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

She died of galloping Christianity of the malignant California type.

The slayers of the heretics are the worst heretics of all.

Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute.

If my son were to oppose the Catholic Church, I myself would carry the faggots to burn him.

May we not return to those scoundrels of old, the illustrious founders of superstition and fanaticism, who first took the knife from the altar to make victims of those who refused to be their disciples?

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism…

Islam is a malignant cancer.

Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.

Our enemy is hatred - the hatred inherent in fundamentalism.

Religious extremism. We hear about it all the time. We see it all the time. Heck, most of us are just sick of talking about it all the time.

A lot of people have done things in the name of Christianity and religion and faith in a not-so-nice way.

My first memories are of picketing ex-servicemen's funerals and telling their families they were going to burn in hell.

I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.