“Sin, blasphemy, heresy – all these are primitive ideas created by primitive creatures, unworthy of the title “human”.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Rest assured that the most fervid revivalism will wear itself out in mere smoke, if it be not maintained by the fuel… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“A reader has recently described the Heresy novels as "Dan Brown meets Guy Ritchie" and "I am constantly telling people about the… — Alexander Ferrar Copy Share Image
Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Yet in tearing us apart he somehow held us together. In obstructing, he strengthened us. In criticizing, he informed. In his rich,… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Those who make pictures of the Savior, who is God as well as man in one inseparable person, either limit the incomprehensible… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
“While the stoning of children for heresy has fallen out of fashion in our country, you will not hear a moderate Christian… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“Mis-information is rampant in this great age of mass-information. While we have more access to learning than ever before in the history… — David D. Flowers Copy Share Image
Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation.… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. No other religion ever considered… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“All the weaponry and tactics that have been deployed in the war on terror are justified by precisely the same theological stance… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that any book should be denied to the man who possesses the wisdom to understand it, Bruno, but… — S.J. Parris Copy Share Image
The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies;… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses,… — M. M. Mangasarian Copy Share Image
“The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow (in the Book of Genesis days are equal to years, ages). But… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
“The huge modern heresy is to alter the human soul to fit modern social conditions, instead of altering modern social conditions to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“This authority stood steady as the cathedral itself. The building was raised once and for all, and for those who dare doubt… — André Bjerke Copy Share Image
In academia, I discovered that issues and insights, commonplace among the scholars, are viewed as highly controversial and even as 'heresy' in… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
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