Quotes About Religion

Don't give me your Christian shit about forgiveness.

It seemed an unassailable logic to me. What was the point of worshipping a god if he did not help you?

Father Hobbe, his cassock skirts hitched up to his waist, was fighting with a quarterstaff, ramming the pole into French faces. 'In the name of the Father,' he shouted, and a Frenchman reeled back with a pulped eye, 'and of the Son,' Father Hobbe snarled as he broke a man's nose, 'and of the Holy Ghost!

She was no Christian. Instead she believed that every place and every thing had its own god or goddess; a nymph for a stream, a dryad for a wood, a spirit for a tree, a god for the fire and another for the sea. The Christian god, like Thor or Odin, was just one more deity among this unseen throng of powers, and her dreams, she said, were like eavesdropping on the gods. One day, as she rode beside me on the hills above the empty sea, she suddenly said that Alfred would give me power.

The equinox came. The Christians celebrated the death feast of their God while we lit the vast fires of Beltain

why prefer a god who wants you to torture yourself instead of worshipping Eostre who wants you to take a girl into the woods and make babies?

an arena where, so Merewalh's priest told me, Christians had been fed to wild beasts. Some things are just too good to be true and so I was not sure I believed him.

The church, we're to meet in the church. Do try to wipe that blood off your mail, Uhtred. We're an embassy!

then went to the small room where Uhtred lay. Except he was no longer Uhtred. He called himself Father Oswald now and I found him propped up in his bed with color in his cheeks.

What in the holy name of a holy harlot,' Culhwch asked Galahad, 'is a holy ghost?

Children are easily swayed by religion, which is why it is a good thing that most eventually grow into sense.

grumbled. "You can say it. You're a Catholic?" "Christ, I haven't seen a church in ten years," Harper said. "I doubt God listens to me." "He doesn't even know I exist. I wonder if Dan prayed?

French desecrated the cathedral. They plundered the treasury and tore down most of the screens.

Alfred spends half his time rutting and the other half praying to his god to forgive him for rutting. How can a god disapprove of a good hump?

É uma coisa estranha que notei com relação aos cristãos. Eles afirmam que nossos deuses não têm poder, no entanto temem às maldições feitas em nome desses deuses.

Because I'm tired of Wessex,' I said, 'tired of priests, tired of being told what your god's will is, tired of being told that I'm a sinner, tired of your endless damned nonsense, tired of that nailed tyrant you call god who only wants us to be miserable.

Priests have never been great men for the truth

I envy your Christian God. He is three and He is one, He is dead and He is alive, He is everywhere and He is nowhere, and He demands that you worship Him, but claims nothing else is worthy of worship. There's room in those contradictions for a man to believe in anything or nothing

If we do nothing then Wessex will spread like a plague. There'll be priests everywhere." We seek the future. We stare into its fog and hope to see a landmark that will make sense of fate.

Says so in the scriptures

to." "And only have one wife?" "Only one wife. They're strict about that." He thought about it. "I still think I should do it," he said, "because Eadred's god does have power. Look at that dead man! It's a miracle that he hasn't rotted away!" The Danes were fascinated by Eadred's relics. Most did not understand why a group of monks would carry a corpse

The men with leather or mail mostly possessed helmets and had proper weapons, swords or spears, while the rest were armed with axes, adzes, sickles, or sharpened hoes. Eadred grandly called it the Army of the Holy Man, but if I had been the holy man I would have bolted back to heaven and waited for something better to come along.

Besides, as I have never tired of telling my Christian followers, we pagans rarely persecute Christians. We believe there are many gods, so we accept another man's religion as his own affair, while Christians, who perversely insist that there is only one god, think it their duty to kill, maim, enslave, or revile anyone who disagrees. They tell me this is for our own good.

nosotros, los paganos, rara vez perseguimos a los cristianos. Porque somos de ésos que creemos que hay muchos dioses y damos por buena la religión de cualquiera, algo que consideramos que entra dentro de lo personal, en tanto que los cristianos, con su empecinamiento en la idea de un solo dios, consideran que obligación suya es matar, mutilar, esclavizar o denostar a quienquiera que no esté de acuerdo con su forma de pensar.