“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
“Christianity has always looked on sex as in some way indecent and sinful; and for that reason Christians cannot possibly associate a truly religious nature 'with an unsuppressed libido. But that is more than a prejudice.'” WayReasonChristianSexReligiousChristianityPrejudiceJewAssociatesLibido Author:Lewis Browne
“Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.” MenHeartLittlesReligionLeftChurchChristianityGoneSeaHabitEmptyPrejudiceRemainsWaveWarmBeachPhrasesSandSentimentsTidesIntoleranceShellsMultitudesEgyptTheologianDoubtfulScrapCathedralsLumpsShrinesJellyHoppingTidal WavesStarfishEmpty ShellBurrowing Author:H. G. Wells
“Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.” WarRaceChristianityEnemyStruggleDangerousCivilizationDiseaseRootsPrejudiceDemocraticWesternCivil WarDecencyWestern Civilization Author:Mordecai
“When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind.” LoveLifeWisdomReligionHateSpiritualityPeaceChristianityBuddhismLivingPrejudiceTaoismTao Author:Hsin Hsin Ming