Things happen for a reason Quote by James Madison

That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for…

— James Madison

“Hell had become, over the years, a wearisome speculation. Even its proselytizers have neglected it, abandoning the poor, but serviceable, human allusion which the…

— BORGES JORGE LUIS

“After all, the Church had murdered itself, as with every decade more and more depressed dubiousness crept into its synods and convocations, until speaking…

— Will Self

“Wordless, it rises and falls in hemidemisemitones of unearthly misery. The dirge of the damned”

— Edward Abbey

“I discovered that those who want their property to be respected, have an interest in preaching the existence of paradise and hell, and in…

— Emma Goldman

“The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people into being…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“The actors of the era knew they were excommunicated. Entering the profession amounted to choosing Hell. And the Church discerned in them her worst…

— Albert Camus

“As good heirs of the Bible, we think that a great misfortune necessarily follows a great infraction. In this respect the intellectual caste, in…

— Pascal Bruckner

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

“There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity of today,…

— Mark Twain

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

— Hosea Ballou

“Faustus, who embraced evil and shunned righteousness, became the foremost symbol of the misuse of free will, that sublime gift from God with its…

— E.A. Bucchianeri