“Christians have ... identified their opponents, whether Jews, pagans, or heretics, with forces of evil, and so with Satan... Nor have things improved since. The blood-soaked history of persecution, torture, murder, and destruction perpetrated in the name of religion is difficult to grasp, let alohne summarize, from the slaughter of Christians to the Crusades to the Inquisitiion to the Reformation to the European witchcraze to colonialization to today's bitter coflict in the Middle East.” TodayChristianEvilNamesForceDifficultBloodAtheismMiddleDestructionMurderJewPositive AtheismEastBitterSatanOpponentsTortureMiddle EastPersecutionPaganReformationSlaughterHereticCrusades Author:Elaine Pagels
“There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us.” IfsTurnsSunBloodMoonEternalDestructionHarmonyContactDragonsNervesCorrespondence Book:Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation Source: Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation
“I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are facing total thermonuclear destruction; and, if you can make someone believe in a ghost or a demon or a vampire in the face of that, you are doing well. From my own personal point of view, I don't think just blood and guts is enough. At least, it isn't for me. Maybe it will turn someone's stomach; but, I'm not sure that is literature or even entertainment.” IfsThinkingWorldBelieveWellsEnoughFacesTurnsLiteratureDifficultMy OwnViewsBloodThis WorldDestructionEntertainmentPoint Of ViewGhostVampireNot SureDemonGutsStomachDifficult Times Author:Stephen King
“Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.” MenMeanChoicesAsksMoneyDealsBloodGunToolsRootsDestructionDollarsCeaseWhips Book:Atlas Shrugged Source: Atlas Shrugged
“of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.” MenLifeEndsInspirationLeftPowerfulBloodTerribleWeaponsDestructionDistanceLeavingPoisonMost PowerfulClueArrowsAvoidedSpearsDaggers Author:Paulo Coelho