“Without a belief in God and the soul, where is the oath? Without the oath, where is the obligation or the pressure to fulfill it? Where is the law that even kings must obey? Where is the Magna Carta, Habeas Corpus, or The bill of Rights? (All of which arose out of attempts to rule by lawless tyranny.) Where is the lifelong fidelity of husband and wife? Where is the safety of the innocent child growing in the womb? Where, in the end, is the safety for any of us from those currently bigger and stronger than we are? And how striking it is that such oaths we use to make us better, not worse.” ReligionFaithBeliefExistenceMoralityReligion And PhiloshophyApologeticsChristian ApologeticsOathsAnti Theism Book:The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith Source: The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith
“Among the favorite arguments of the irreligious, one that they almost invariably advance in their opening offensive in their attacks on faith is this: that conflicts fought in the name of religion are necessarily ABOUT religion. By saying this the irreligious hope to establish that religion is of itself the cause of conflict. This is a crude factual misunderstanding. Some conflicts fought in the name of religion are specifically religious. Many others are not, or cannot be so simply classified. The only general lesson that can be drawn from these differing wars is that Man is inclined to make war on Man when he thinks it will gain him power or wealth or land.” WarReligionApologeticsWarsReligion And PhilosophyChristian ApologeticsAnti TheismThe Nature Of Man Book:The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith Source: The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith
“The Bolsheviks killed their own most loyal supporters at Kronstadt in 1921, because they failed to understand that the revolution no longer required revolutionaries, but obedient servants.” GodReligionAtheismBolsheviksServantsRevolutionariesRevolutions Author:Peter Hitchens
