Quotes About Controversy

The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life--the unborn--without diminishing the value of all human life.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

He asks wether Christians eat gold. Ari, nispa. Qoritam mikhunku. Yes, they are saying. They do eat gold.

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.

Rush Limbaugh

Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists, biologists, and neurologists, along with whatever blood can be got out of grammarians

To let the famous brain surgeon into Palestine would mean helping the Jews. The British would sooner throw him in jail.

Christianity is incendiarism; Christ Himself says, 'I am come to set fire on the earth'…official Christianity is not the Christianity of the New Testament.

Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.

Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name. (Discussion at Woodruff Auditorium in Lawrence, KS; October 7, 2005.)

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

Nathuram Godse. "Thank God," Amina burst out, "it's not a Muslim name!

What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish? [Interview with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason , June 23, 2006]

Nobody has the right to not be offended.

The idea that any kind of free society can be constructed in which people will never be offended or insulted, or in which they have the right to call on the law to defend them against being offended or insulted, is absurd.

Fundamentalists of both religions had instantly sought injunctions banning the film from being shown

how he was going to die for his verses, but could not find it in himself to call the death-sentence unjust.

Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were first published in a Danish newspaper. When was the last atheist riot?

It has been estimated that 50 percent of all human conceptions end in spontaneous abortion, usually without a woman even realizing that she was pregnant. In fact, 20 percent of all recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage. There is an obvious truth here that cries out for acknowledgment: if God exists, He is the most prolific abortionist of all.

I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.