False Religion Quotes
Not unlike George W. Bush and his administration 1800 years later, Licinius just could not accept that the Christians who attacked Roman Rule, resented the Roman Rule or didn’t care for the Roman policies, and assumed that the attacks were motivated by a desire for atheism and a desire to insult the Roman Gods. Today we think it odd, that Christians were referred to as “atheists” and God was “some strange and unheard-of Deity”. In the War on Terror, some politicians in addition to Bush took the position that it was American Religion and value systems were under attack. “Atheist” in its original form meant “without God.” To the Roman who worshipped a bevy of Gods, Christians and Jews, who only worshipped a single God, were “without Gods”—atheists.
Spinoza, although brought up as an orthodox Jew, was an incredibly educated man who studied every religion that he could find information about. Observing that the adherents to each believed it to be the one valid religion, he tried to get others to widen their horizons. He was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Jews, the Catholics and the Muslims.