Century Quote by Philip Jenkins

“War clearly blurred the distinction between logic and superstition”

— Markus Zusak

“Many of the more ghastly and idiotic aspects of the Great War were made possible by the coincidence of mass-production and the social religion…

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

“When you consider the superstitions and the imaginings of the old Cornish country-folk up to my grandmother's day, how their lives were swaddled in…

— A. L. Rowse

The typical WW1 soldier was not an intellectual like Ernst Jünger or Wilfred Owen, but was a peasant draftee from Galicia or Bavaria or…

— Philip Jenkins

“Housman would not have appealed so deeply to the people who were young in 1920 if it had not been for another strain in…

— George Orwell

“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] In those days also people loved, envied, sought truth and virtue, and where carried away by…

— Leo Tolstoy

Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living,…

— Albert Camus

I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

— Elie Wiesel

“the modern religions of secular salvation have undermined their own main assumption: that the future would be materially superior to the present. Nothing less…

— Pankaj Mishra

It was a time of madness, the sort of mad-hysteria that always presages war. There seems to be nothing left but war--when any population…

— Rebecca Latimer Felton

And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. The superstition of the people was not embittered theological rancor.

— Edward Gibbon

The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it was found…

— Walter Kasper