“Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.” PeopleWarChristianFightingChristianityRecordsHolyEuropeRootsPrejudiceIslamWesternEastToleranceViolentCrusadesWestern EuropeHoly War Author:Karen Armstrong
“I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpitagainst the K.K.K. in the '20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!” IfsLittlesDoneBitsChristianityPrejudiceGenuinePreachingGeorgiaBaptistsBrethrenFacetious Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We live in an age in which only one prejudice is tolerated - anti-Christian bigotry... Today, the only group you can hold up to public mockery is Christians. Attacks on the Church and Christianity are common.” AgeTodayChristianChurchReligiousCommonChristianityGroupsPrejudiceBigotryMockeryAnti Christian Book:What if Jesus Had Never Been Born? Source: What if Jesus Had Never Been Born?
“Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.” WorldChristianityEssencePrejudiceSectsAccommodatePerversionTranscendentalism Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Anyone who knows he is loved is in turn prompted to love. It is the Lord himself, who loved us first, who asks us to place at the center of our lives love for him and for the people he has loved. It is especially adolescents and young people, who feel within them the pressing call to love, who need to be freed from the widespread prejudice that Christianity, with its commandments and prohibitions, sets too many obstacles in the path of the joy of love and, in particular prevents people from fully enjoying the happiness that men and women find in their love for one another.” PeopleKnowsMenNeedsFeelsFirstsYoungJoyTurnsAsksEnjoyChristianityLordPathOur LivesParticularMen And WomenPrejudiceObstaclesLove LifeCommandmentsProhibition Author:Pope Benedict XVI