“Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ. Biologically, in great forest communities, they help sustain life on our planet, giving off oxygen, anchoring soil, keeping stream and rivers clear, and providing habitation for thousands of species. How can religious persons not care about the widespread destruction of these creatures of God? We need to love them as our very selves, as neighbors in earth's community of life.” NeedsGivingPersonsSelfPlayHelpingCareEarthChristianChristCommunityReligiousRolesClearTreePlanetsCreaturesUniqueGardenRiversCrossesDestructionSpeciesNeighborScriptureForestsStreamsSoilProvidingOxygenOur PlanetEdenGarden Of EdenReligious Person Author:Elizabeth A. Johnson
“It is a fact that unless children are brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, they, and the society which they constitute or control, will go to destruction. Consequently, when a state resolves that religious instruction shall be banished from the schools and other literary institutions, it virtually resolves on self-destruction.” ChildrenSelfStatesGodFactsSchoolReligionReligiousEducationLordSocietyDestructionInstitutionsResolveInstructionNurtureTheologianSelf DestructionTeaching ChildrenAdmonitionBanishmentReligious EducationChristian Education Book:Systematic Theology Source: Systematic Theology
“Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction.” WorldLostReligiousMankindFieldsMaterialsWeaponsDestructionInstrumentsCrueltyOur TimeWarfareExplosionsSuppliesTheologicalAnother WorldDiscordButchers Author:John Quincy Adams
“Historically speaking, the Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect... After the destruction of Judaism, the extinction of Christian slave morals must follow logically... Ah, the God of the deserts, that crazed, stupid, vengeful Asiatic despot with his power to make laws!” ChristianLawReligiousMoralStupidDestructionSlaveDesertJudaismExtinctionSectsDespotsVengeful Author:Adolf Hitler
“What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow; what do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!” IfsKnowsMenWorldGodTodayForceReligiousKnow HowForeverTomorrowCreaturesWeakDestructionFellowsCreatorKneesMeritHeelsTormentRepentSectsInconsistentFrailInfamous Author:Marquis de Sade