Background Image
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. that, that my friends, is true perversion.
-Harvey Milk
Please Wait....
Translating....

The Fact Is That More People Have

Harvey Milk
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. that, that my friends, is true perversion.
Views: 94056
Cite this Page
Prevent plagiarism by providing proper attribution.
APA FORMAT
Embed this Quote
Copy this HTML code to embed the quote on your website or blog.
HTML CODE
Topic
Names People Facts

More From Harvey Milk

Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it, not as inferior to it but superior - yet in such a way, please note, that it is the single individual who, after being subordinate as the single individual to the universal, now by means of the universal becomes the single individual who as the single individual is superior, that the single individual as the single individual stands in an absolute relation to the absolute.
Mean Atheism Way
We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. it is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body.
Loss People Justice
There are black christians, and black muslims in africa who are being slaughtered, they don't want to hear about the jim crow laws. there are christians, there are other muslims being slaughtered in the middle east, they don't need a lecture from obama about christianity. the fact of the matter is obama is not doing anything effective or substantive to stop genocide in our time.
Christian Jim Crow Laws Black
You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. in the so called age of faith, when men really did believe the christian religion in all its completeness, there was the inquisition, with its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burnt as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practised upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
Christian Believe Men
Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise god; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of god. as reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify god with it.
Religious Men Understanding
Vonnegut's war was necessary. and yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. it was the mammoth projection outward of the confused inner life of men. in war, the sad tidy constructs we make to help us believe life is orderly and controllable are roughly thrown aside like the delusions they are. in war, love is outed as an insane, insupportable emotion, a kind of luxury emotion, because everywhere you look, someone beloved to someone is being slaughtered, by someone whose own beloved has been slaughtered, or will be, or could be.
Confused War Believe
Similar Quotes
I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.
Confused Thinking Quitting
President obama says he wants to put an end to the policy, 'don't ask, don't tell.' yeah, in the military. this is not to be confused with george bush's policy, 'don't know, don't care.' that's a whole different deal.
Confused Military President
The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. whenever the map is confused with the territory, a 'semantic disturbance' is set up in the organism. the disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.
Confused Maps Territory
Do you know him well?" i ask.i am too curious; i always have been. "everyone knows four," she says. "we were initiates together.i was bad at fighting,so he taught me every night after everyone was asleep." she scratches the back of her neck, her expression suddenly serious. "nice of him." she gets up and stands behind the members sitting in the doorway. in a second, her serious expression is gone,but i still feel rattled by what she said, half confused by the idea of four being "nice" and half wanting to punch her for no apparent reason.
Confused Nice Fighting

Trending Author

Huston Smith
Huston Smith
Walter Anderson
Walter Anderson
Kurt Loder
Kurt Loder
Martha Quinn
Martha Quinn
Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain
Amy Heckerling
Amy Heckerling
Category
Information
Inspirational
Philosophy
Personal Growth
Happiness & Joy
Life Lessons
Success & Business
Motivation