.. Saudi ... a dynasty founded upon its supposed piety, but long since corrupted by the ways of the world. - Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture What's Left of It, p.289
Historic Christianity has left an evil legacy.
It is responsible for the crusades, in which
Jewish people from Europe to Jerusalem
were slaughtered in seven major pogroms
(crusades).
The first crusade was declared by Pope Urban II
in 1095. The crusaders were rapists and thieves,
forgiven in advance by the reigning pope for any sins
they might commit while on their holy campaign to
liberate Jerusalem from the "infidels."
Not one Christian in a hundred today can answer the
question: "How is it that Christianity, born through
the teachings of a Jewish rabbi named Jesus of
Nazareth, could three hundred years later kill
Jews in the name of God?"
There is a dramatic difference between historic
Christianity and the teachings of Jesus Christ. I
publicly state that I am not a follower of historic
Christianity; I am a follower of Jesus Christ!
--John Hagee (1940- ) _Four Blood Moons_ [2013], "Signs In The Heavens"
The Holy Scriptures tell us what we could never
learn any other way: they tell us what we are, who
we are, how we got here, why we are here, and what
we are required to do while we remain here.
--A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
(In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations_ [2001], "Bible, Purpose Of")
To be right with God has often meant to be in
trouble with men.
--A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)
_Man, The Dwelling Place of God_ [1992]
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just
as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it
be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where
all that we have loved or shall love must die?
Is death, then, the secret of life?
--Henri-Frederic Amiel (1821-1881)
_Journal Intime_ [1883], "November 16, 1864"
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