Apostasy Quotes

“Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.”

“The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.”

“Scripture indicates that deception, false religions, and apostasy lead to war, and that war in turn leads to famine and pestilence.”

“To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.”

“Blasphemy has always seemedto require taking things very seriously. I know no better stance to adopt from within the secular-religious, evangelical traditions of United States politics, including the politics of socialist feminism. Blasphemy protects one from the moral majority within, while still insisting on the need for community. Blasphemy is not apostasy. Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour and serious play.”

“The United States is falling away from the very things that had made it what it was. What it is becoming is something to be feared....”

“In Islam, it is the "moderate" who is left to split hairs,because the basic thrust of the doctrine is undeniable: convert, sub-jugate, or kill unbelievers; kill apostates; and conquer the world.”

“People who change their religion should face the death penalty.”

“The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.”