Blasphemy Quote by Martin Luther King Jr

“since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it became the…

— Tom Robbins

“It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer needlessly while…

— Sam Harris

“Christianity made people unpatriotic, made them intolerant and dogmatic, willing to criticize other people’s gods and alternative lifestyles.”

— Rod Bennett

“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

“Disgusted by the abuses to which it led, humanity repressed Christianity by which it had so long been dominated. Repressed, but not eliminated. Herein…

— Paul Tournier

... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of…

— Katha Pollitt

“Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often…

— Dan Simmons

“The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. [In a letter to Frederick the Great]”

— Voltaire

“Bad theology kills”

— Kevin Garcia

“Religion and ethics were not always—or even frequently—mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often reflected the worst aspects…

— Dan Simmons

“And yet, the fact that we are no longer killing people for heresy in the West suggests that bad ideas, however sacred, cannot survive…

— Sam Harris