“Anyone who is a Palestinian citizen, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, should decide together in a very free referendum. There is no need for war. There is no need for threats or an atom bomb either.” NeedsShouldWarChristianTogetherCitizensThreatBombsAtomsPalestinianReferendumsAtom Bomb Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“Christians always write to me threatening me with Hell. Strange how they think this vindicates them and their religion. Threats are the hallmark of a wicked creed.” ThinkingWritingChristianHellAtheismStrangeThreatWickedCreedsThreateningHallmark Author:Richard Carrier
“The real conflict in the abortion issue is between a value - the right to choose whether or not to have the child - and a moral dictum - don't kill other humans. The more here, even, is flexible and relative. "Thou shall not kill" really means, "don't kill productive, contributing members of your own society that aren't a threat to your safety." If it was not relative, then no "Judeo-Christian" person could ever go to war or execute someone.” IfsHumansMeanChildrenPersonsWarRealChristianValuesMoralIssuesAtheismConflictMembersSafetyThreatAbortionProductiveRelativeFlexibleReally MeanContributing Author:Morris Sullivan
“Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction.... In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life - in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character.... It is essentially a doctrine of passive obedience; it inculcates submission to all authorities found established.” GivingHumansHas BeensMadeCharacterChristianLyingFallFoundHeavenHellAtheismMoralityHorrorAuthorityThreatPositive AtheismSelfishReactionsDoctrineSensualityObedienceMotiveAppropriateIdolsVirtuousPassiveSubmissionAsceticismLegalityChristian MoralityVirtuous Life Book:Utilitarianism, liberty, and representative government Source: Utilitarianism, liberty, and representative government
“Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.” WayChristianReligiousClearTreatsThreatChristian LifeReportersDistastefulAmerican Way Of Life Author:Robert Bork
“Extremist groups like People for the American Way attack Christians who run for public office as a threat to the 'separation of church and state,' though they never specify why conservatives are any more of a threat than churchmen and church women on the Left who have led religiously inspired causes for decades.” PeopleWayStatesRunningChristianLeftCausesChurchReligiousGroupsOfficeThreatInspiredDecadesSeparationChurch And StateExtremistSeparation Of Church And StatePublic OfficeExtremist Groups Author:Ronald H. Nash
“Ill tell you, Mr. Thomas, why some Christians are afraid of me. They're not sure that what they believe is really true. If they were sure, I wouldn't be a threat to them at all.” IfsBelieveChristianReligiousThreatIllNot SureReally True Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of the people to put aside private interest for public good. The imperatives of virtue attached all sorts of desiderata to the republican citizen: simplicity, frugality, sobriety, simple manners, Christian benevolence, duty to the polity. Republics called on other virtues--spiritedness, courage--to protect the polity from external threats. Tyrants kept standing armies; republics relied on free yeomen, defending their own land.” PeopleSelfChristianInterestSimpleVirtueDemocracyLandDutyCitizensRepublicanProtectGoodnessStandingArmyThreatSimplicityMannersRelyRepublicTyrantsImperativesSelf InterestMonarchyCoercionBenevolenceSplendorSobrietyFactionsDazzlingFrugalityPublic GoodYeoman Author:James Monroe