Divine Punishment Quotes
During the Irish Potato the official who was in charge of the relief program was a highly religious, fundamentalist Christian who believed that the famine was God’s retribution.
Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, … condemns God and must remain a child of hell.
Humility and doubt were not characteristics of Martin Luther.
It is amazing what explanations religious and biased fanatics can come up with to explain history.
Yazid ibn al-Walid ibn 'Abd al-Malik. This is an Islamic doctrine that operates to this day together with the stricture that a bad ruler must be endured and not revolted against UNLESS he does not follow his Islamic religious obligations. This is why many Islamic rulers curry favor with the clerics. As long as they do not claim he is violating the word of God, his rule is safe from revolution. However, if the clerics turn on him, he is in deep trouble. Thus Saudi Arabia endures a monarchy and the ruling family pays the Wahhabi enormous sums to avoid their religious condemnation.
Interest is forbidden in all transaction, both business and personal.
The Koran is even more discriminatory regarding Jewish & Christian clerics: {584380}.