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“You are human, whether your ancestors come from Europe, Asia, Africa, or wherever, shamanism once existed there. We are just attempting to go home to our spiritual roots before the state religions, the agrarian centralized religions rose up with autocratic government and said, 'This is what you're going to believe, these are the official revelations, take it from us, you can trust us, we got it.'”

Believe Humans Said States Home Government Spiritual Europe Roots Rose Officials Revelations Ancestor Asia Attempting Shamanism

Author:Michael Harner

“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.”

People War Christian Fighting Christianity Records Holy Europe Roots Prejudice Islam Western East Tolerance Violent Crusades Western Europe Holy War

Author:Karen Armstrong

“The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.”

World Reason Political Powerful Leader Century Periods Enlightenment Europe Tradition Roots Employed Better Place Political Leaders

Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

“It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is true that you may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply because they have learned to fear God; and, fearing him, to restrain themselves, which is the very root and essence of all good breeding.”

Men May Has Beens Said Simple Europe Roots Essence Court Gentleman Breeding Thorough Dukes True Religion Fear God Good Breeding

Book:The Gospel of the Pentateuch: A Set of Parish Sermons: Easyread Large Bold Edition

Source: The Gospel of the Pentateuch: A Set of Parish Sermons: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will need something more. He will need to overcome his disgust long enough to ponder the roots of this strange and puzzling phenomenon.”

Needs Writing Long Enough Strong Century Honest Strange Intellectual Europe Roots Overcoming Phenomenon Stomach Disgusting Twentieth Century Pondering Puzzling

Author:Mark Lilla

“The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it was found in reason, which is something that is shared by all of mankind. This was one of the roots of the Enlightenment and its concept of universal human rights.”

“The fundamental issue, when it comes to Europe's future, will be whether and how we manage to transfer the ideals that once made Europe great - especially its Christian roots - into today's changed world. No one wants to return to the Middle Ages.”

World Want Made Age Today Christian Issues Middle Changed Return Europe Ideals Roots Fundamentals Manage Middle Ages Transfers

Author:Walter Kasper

“America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.”

Ifs Ends America Failing Risk Europe Tradition Roots Conservative Finished Jail Businessman Pioneers Risk-taking

Author:Stelios Haji-Ioannou

“The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial period in what I called Orientalism. The study of the Other has a lot to do with the control and dominance of Europe and the West generally in the Islamic world. And it has persisted because it's based very, very deeply in religious roots, where Islam is seen as a kind of competitor of Christianity.”

World Kind Religious Christianity Study Periods Europe Roots West Islam Violent Islamic Irrational Threatening Competitors Dominance Very Deep Lustful Orientalism

Author:Edward Said

“I believe that all the euphoria about Europe has led many of us to forget that Europe is a conglomerate of different entities and countries. But if you don't love your own entity, if you don't know your roots and can no longer relate to them, you will also have problems with the rest of Europe.”

Ifs Knows Believe Different Country Problem I Believe Forget Love You Europe Roots Relate Entity Euphoria

Author:Margrethe II of Denmark

“A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.”

Stories America Names Europe Roots Greek Latin Archetype Latin And Greek

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said Lymond, looking at her. "That explains a lot.”

Men Children Said Christian Mother Thousand Sitting Europe Built Roots Twenties Slave Jew Coast Jungle Rabbits Palaces Men Women Good God Unshakable Fixation Weasels Moors Renegades

Author:Dorothy Dunnett

“For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.”

Facts Christian Fall Fighting Force Taken Europe Roots Accounts Driving Recovery Communism Driving Force

Author:Rocco Buttiglione