Quotes from Raymond Khoury

God doesn't care about what you eat or what you drink. He doesn't care about how often you pray to him or what words you use or where you go to do that....He only cares about how you behave towards one another.

This battle, this war, between us . . . this 'clash of civilizations,' as your people like to call it. It's a long-term fight. It's not about who's got the biggest gun. It's not about landing one big killer punch. It's about attrition. It's about killing the body slowly, with lots of well-placed jabs. It's about relentlessly chipping away at the soul of your enemy with every opportunity you get.

There are two billion Christians out there, Sean, and a lot of them think of the Bible as God's words. His actual words. They think the twenty-seven texts that make up the New Testament were handed down to us by God himself, to help us lead better lives and achieve eternal salvation. They don't realize that nothing could be farther from the truth and that what we call the Bible was actually

It was only with Christianity that the idea of what a person believed in started to matter, and matter a lot, because his or her eternal life suddenly depended on it.

But the winners chose what we should believe in. They chose which writings were sacred and which ones were 'heretical.

you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy

maybe we don't need a heavenly bribe or the fear of hell and damnation to make us behave decently. Maybe it would be healthier if people started believing in themselves instead.

Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind.

Faith is easy when you're standing in front of a miracle. The real test of faith is when there aren't any signs." ~Reilly, The Last Templar pg. 244

We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.

It's amazing, isn't it? Here we are, two thousand years later, with everything we've accomplished, everything we know, and yet this little talisman still rules the way billions of people live…and die.

They bragged about democracy and demonized countries that didn't have it, but they didn't really believe in democracy. They believed in hypocrisy. Their moral compass had spun out of control, from the very top down.

The Bible tells us the messiah will only return AFTER we've had the final battle between God's children and the army of the antichrist out there in Israel. It's only after that happens that we can be saved by the Rapture . . . we're still waiting for the Israelis to bomb the crap out of Iran and kick-start the whole thing.

A soldier's job is to put his life on the line for his country.

religion has always been the fuel that keeps the furnaces of intolerance and hatred burning.

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Làm cái gh? nhÆ° tôi thì khó có v? l?m" "Chà, h?n r?i, n?u cái ngh? Ä'ó cho phép anh nh?y lên máy bay vá»›i các cô gái ch? má»›i quen bi?t. Tôi cÅ©ng h?n ch?ng mu?n ch?ng mình làm Ä'i?u Ä'ó h?ng ngày

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Anh không th? ?? má»™t chuy?n có th? không bao gi? x?y ra h?y ho?i cuá»™c ??i anh

Các anh Ä'úng th?t là nh?ng k? du hành ??y phong cách

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