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“We have to be sure [students] understand that racial, national, ethnic, and religious hatred can lead to horrible tragedies.”

Religious Students Hatred Tragedy Horrible Religious Hatred

Author:Rod Blagojevich

“Of one man in especial, beyond anyone else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to support him on the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the republic, that he will secure for those who elect him, in one shape or another, profit at the expense of other citizens of the republic. It makes no difference whether he appeals to class hatred or class interest, to religious or anti-religious prejudice. The man who makes such an appeal should always be presumed to make it for the sake of furthering his own interest.”

“Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.”

Religious Atheism Ought Taxes Hatred Bases Religious Hatred

Book:Report of the County Chairman

Source: Report of the County Chairman

“The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought, all based on religious hatred. Which is fine with me! Any time a bunch of holy people want to go out and kill each other I'm a happy guy!”

People Want War Guy Religious Fine Holy Hatred Bunch Brutal Religious Hatred

Author:George Carlin

“Instead of more violence why isn't there a [meeting of religious leaders]. It's all got to be dialogue - that's the only way. Get everybody from each religion together and say 'Listen, this can't go on. Why do we have all this hatred?'”

Way Together Religious Leader Violence Goes On Hatred Meetings Dialogue Religious Leaders

Author:Elton John

“America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.”

People Matter Reason Christian America Form Force Religious Hatred Bigotry Respectable

Author:William Bennett

“Militant homosexuals, pro-abortionists, occultists, New Agers, pornographers, radical feminists, atheists, paganists and a whole collection of angry anti-Christian groups are all coming out of their closets and onto the battlefield. Their common denominator is a hatred for Christianity and for any expression of traditional values.”

Source: Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God

“On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.”

Mind Humans Christian Sides Religious Ignorance Capable Hatred Bigotry Human Mind Superstitions Blackness

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Concerning the press and politicians, the hatred for all such evangelical groups is not because of their real or fancied blunders but because they have reintroduced biblical morality into politics.”

Real Christian Religious Groups Politician Morality Hatred Presses Biblical Evangelical Blunders

Author:R.J. Rushdoony

“While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.”

Ideas War Religious Hatred Tolerance Absurd Criticize Provoking Incapable Liability Religious Tolerance Religious Wars Religious Hatred

Author:Sam Harris

“Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.”

Ifs Love Made States Belief Force Religious Love Is Dangerous Produce Hatred Operations Regulation Introducing Begets Religious Belief Unbelief Like Love

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.”

God Religious Honest Judging Promise Hatred Ignorant Vain Curse Sincere Jealous Tyrants Unjust Suspicious Hypocrite Hideous Infamous False Friends Revengeful Braggarts

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute.”

Evil Religious Hatred Absolutes Religious Hatred

Author:Lance Morrow

“Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter.”

“The bloody years of war and all the atrocities in European history have taught the Europeans that secular politics free of religious hatred is mainly a question of peace. This concept is not anchored in the same way in the consciousness of Turks, which has to do with the fact that the secular was forced upon us by the army.”

Way Years War Facts Religious Consciousness Taught Concepts Hatred Army Bloody Secular Atrocities European History Religious Hatred

Author:Orhan Pamuk