Christianity Quote by Phyllis Goldstein

“Their fathers had been slaughtered over the stretch of a half-century by the Persians, their mothers raped. And still they had not caved in.”

— Bettany Hughes

“By 629, the Byzantines were in control of Jerusalem again. Although Jews scrambled to make peace with the authorities, Christian religious leaders demanded that…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Many Jews in the Byzantine Empire welcomed the Persians. Some saw their arrival as an opportunity to win independence or even just a little…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Jerusalem, How cruel it was, after all, That the geographical center of their faith was not actually located within the confines of the Christian…

— Alaa Alghamdi

“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to…

— Steven Pinker

“The deeply rooted Christianity of Africa and Asia did not simply fade away through lack of zeal, or theological confusion: it was crushed, in…

— Philip Jenkins

We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind…

— Sam Harris

“The Bible was written by Jewish people who belonged to a Jewish minority living under the oppression of a succession of massive military superpowers…

— Rob Bell

“In this age of empires, Jews’ insistence on maintaining their own religion and their own cultural traditions made them outsiders in both the Persian…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“For the Arabs, and the above all for the 1.2 million Arabs of Palestine, the partitioning of the land in which they had been…

— Larry Collins

“Spoken in the context of the riots, the words did not kill but they enacted and performed, and what they performed was a murder:…

— Helmut Walser Smith

“The revolt in Asia Minor was snugged out in 494, and the Athenians realized that they had acquired a dangerous enemy. Darius I's first…

— Alan Ryan