Christian Quote by Guenter Lewy

“Precisely because the Inquisition provides a blueprint for building and operating the machinery of persecution...the Inquisition was and still is a danger to human…

— Jonathan Kirsch

It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for…

— Laurence Sterne

As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a…

— Voltaire

“Above all, we cannot and should not try to distance ourselves from any of these inquisitions by reassuring ourselves that no abuse of 'moral…

— Jonathan Kirsch

“Indeed, the greatest single innovation of the Spanish Inquisition was to turn heresy from a thought-crime into a blood-crime...”

— Jonathan Kirsch

In fact, the answers that religion, as we have come to know it, provides to the question of human worth have played so dominant…

— Rebecca Goldstein

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.

— Thomas Howard

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

— Guenter Lewy

Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Perhaps people need to understand some history here. Rene Descartes, in the late 16th, early 17th century, postulated that body, mind, physicality and spirituality…

— Edgar Mitchell

“...more men and women were slaughtered in a couple of weeks of the terror of the atheistic French Revolution than in a century of…

— Michael Coren

In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the…

— Carl Sagan