Christianity Quote by Ngugi wa Thiong'o Download Open image “Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!” — Ngugi wa Thiong'o ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christianity Civilization Committed Crime Evil Has beens Names Religious Western Western civilization
Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion. — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes are to associate another with God, to vex your father and mother, to murder your own species, to commit suicide, and… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Unless the relationship of law to Christianity is re-established, there is no future except destruction for Western culture.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“...the first object of religion next after the suppression of unlawful violence or appropriation should be the suppression of inaccurate statement, and to deny… — LH Mills Copy Share Image
The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
No other work has more often been blamed for more heinous crimes by the perpetrators of such crimes. The Bible has been named as… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
“The crimes of religion pale in comparison to those of secular regimes. This doesn't justify wrongs done in the name of Christianity, but it… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the ferocity of… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name. — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
I think a repressive regime always fears people who are awakened - particularly ordinary people. If they are awakened, I think governments all over… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“Words are the food, body, mirror, and sound of thought. Do you now see the danger of words that want to come out but… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“There was a time when slavery was good. It did its work, and when it finished creating capital it withered and died a natural… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language. So… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“As she stared at them, Waringa noted that their skins were indeed red, like that of pigs or like the skin of a black… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
“They argue that the modern world was created by private capital. The subcontinent of India, for instance, was owned by the British East India… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
“God hates Hell. He hates the idea of people going there. He hates it so much that He was willing to take on human… — Evan Minton Copy Share Image
“some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit against the KKK, I would have a little… — Norman Moss Copy Share Image
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“every church can treat each discipleship class and each worship service as an opportunity for continual rehearsal of what the words, stories, symbols, rituals,… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“A question for Christians who accept evolution: When did we gain a "soul"? Did Homo habilis have a soul? Homo ergaster? Did God only… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
The notion of a non-religious Christmas is ridiculous. But so is the insistence on the part of Christians that politicians and retailers carry out… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image