Quotes About History

Of course slavery and the Muslims were deeply implicated in the slave trade, Islam was an Imperialist religion which destroyed Christianity in the Near East, yet nobody mentions those facts.

Darwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt.

Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.

The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

There is not one iota of history as we know it in the entire Bible!

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion .

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really.