Religious Tension Quotes

It's way beyond ironic that a place called the Holy Land is the location of the fiercest, most deeply felt hatred in the world. And it makes for wonderful theater.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but--more frequently than not --struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

My Reichstag behaves as badly as it can, swinging backwards and forwards between the socialists egged on by the Jews, and the ultramontane Catholics; both parties being soon fit to be hung all of them, as far as I can see.

Islam wants to destroy us and I want to prevent it.

It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.

That dense population in extreme distress inhabited an island where there was an established church which was not their church; and a territorial aristocracy, the richest of whom lived in distant capitals. Thus they had a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and, in addition, the weakest executive in the world. That was the Irish question.

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.

[Vinayak Damodar] Savarkar and his followers lionized Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler and sought to adapt elements of fascist politics to India …. Gandhi’s philosophy with its emphasis on nonviolence and tolerance stood in stark contrast to the divisive [anti-Moslem] vision of Hinduvta leaders and the two movements were often in conflict. Indeed … the man who assassinated Gandhi in 1948, was a follower of Savarkar.

[Church] Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.

As we learn from the New Testament, the Jews and the Samaritans in the days of Jesus were not agreed on the question which was the proper place of worship, but that there could be only one was taken to be as certain as the unity of God Himself.

The hostility that America continues to express against the Muslim people has given rise to feelings of animosity on the part of Muslims against America and against the West in general.

Islam is the Trojan Horse in Europe.

Take a walk down the street and see where this is going. You no longer feel like you are living in your own country. There is a battle going on and we have to defend ourselves. Before you know it there will be more mosques than churches!

These internal clashes in Israel nowadays are in a sense a continuation of a clash between Islam and Christendom through their former Jewish minorities and it works out in a number of different ways. It's fascinating to watch. And I hope they succeed in finding a compromise. At the moment, there doesn't seem to be much sign of it.

As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic Church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it has regarded the Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos etc., because it knew what the Jews were like. I don't put race above religion, but I do see the danger in the representatives of this race for Church and State, and perhaps I am doing Christianity a great service.

Once started religious strife has a tendency to go on and on, to become permanent feuds.

May we at this stage remind our Muslim brothers that they do not have the monopoly of violence in this nation. Nigeria belongs to all of us –-- Christians, Muslims and members of other faiths. No amount of intimidation can Change this time-honored arrangement in this nation. The Christian Association of Nigeria. may no longer be able to contain our restive youths should this ugly trend continue.

One cannot accept Christ and still be part of the normative Jewish community; one cannot live by Torah and still be part of the Church.

There is clearly a conflict within British Islam between a moderate majority that accepts the norms of Western democracy and a growing minority that does not.

Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims.

Your narrow and sectarian prejudices make war upon The Bible …. upon the Pentateuch, while facing the East with his head covered.]

The Muslim community here does feel under siege.

Islam and the Constitution are in clear conflict.

I was born into an Irish Catholic family in the New York area in this great, wonderful, and safe country, but the Holocaust has always haunted me, and it has long stood as a stumbling block to faith. How could such a thing be? How is that consistent with the concept of a loving God?