“Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing. The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.” PeopleThinkingJesusReligiousSimplePracticeTaughtMajorsNegativePoliceViolentHatefulLiberatedNegative ThoughtsReligious Practices Author:Richard Rohr
“Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.” MenIdeasCountryReligiousEffectsDangerousDiseaseMen And WomenPoliceGenderPsychologicalOur CountrySegregationWrong Ideas Author:Basmah bint Saud
“I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were the prayer times. But it was as if we were existing in two separate universes. The Westerners were just allowed to get on with their way of life.” IfsWayTwoUniverseReligiousPrayerLatePoliceArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisWesternersIdyllicPrayer Time Author:Robert Lacey
“What I want to know, though, is why all of a sudden is everybody acting like gangs are some new phenomenon in this country? Almost everyone in America is affiliated with some kind of gang. We got the FBI, the ATF, the police departments, the religious groups, the Democrats and the Republicans. Everybody's got their own little clique and they're all out there gangbanging in their own little way.” KindCountryReligiousActingRepublicanPoliceDemocratPhenomenonGangFbiClique Author:Tupac Shakur
“There was a time when Istanbul was one of the safest cities in the world, because people were afraid of the police. People are no longer as afraid of the police as they used to be. Mugging used to be almost unknown; now everybody is afraid of mugging. In that sense, the downside of liberalization is already being felt in Turkey. And of course some people are afraid of Kurdish ethno-terrorism, which worries Turks very much more than the religious sort.” PeopleWorldReligiousWorryPolice Author:Andrew Mango
“Our supportfor assault weapons ban is very broad...I think we've got all the police, we have all the mayors virtually - the conference of mayors, mayors against guns. We have medical experts, we have virtually dozens of religious organizations of every creed supporting us. We have just lists and lists.” ThinkingReligiousWeaponsGunOrganizationPoliceMedicalListsExpertsBroadsDozenCreedsAssaultConferencesBansMayorsSecond AmendmentAssault WeaponsAssault Weapons Ban Author:Dianne Feinstein
“There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and diaphragms and 'un-logical' terms and things like that.....there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not, there are classes on gym, physical education, let's learn volleyball.” PeopleShouldRealAmericaSexTermReligiousClassDrugRacismPoliceHungryRevolutionaryLogicalGymCultPolice BrutalityBrutalityRacism In AmericaVolleyballApartheidScamsSex EducationPhysical EducationReligious Cults Author:Tupac Shakur