Quotes from the godly...or?

* by cartoonist gaspirtz*

Quotes by people in good standing with their god.

Taken from:

A Treasury of Deception, by Michael Farquhar. Penguin Books, New York, 2005.

part seven, #5, "What in the Name of god?" pp. 190-195.

"By the grace of Auramazda [God] I am king; Auramazda gave me the kingdom."

--Darius the Great of Persia (reigned 522-486 bc)

"Are you the god-haters who do not believe me to be a god, a god acknowledged by all the other nations but not to be named by you?"

--Caligula (reigned ad 37-41, roman empire)

"Piles of heads, hands, and feet were to be seen in the streets. . . . Men rode in blood up to their knees and bridle reins. Indeed, it was a just and splendid judgement of God that this place should be filled with the blood of unbelievers, since it had suffered so long from their blasphemies."

--Report from the French cleric Raymond d'Aguilers on the slaughter of Muslims and Jews in Jerusalem during the First Crusade in 1099

"Alfonso--God curse him!--pulled out of this place after he and his men had taken their fill of the chattels and possessions of the Muslims. . . ."

--Muslim account of the same battle

"Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?"

--Protestant reformer John Calvin (1509-1564) on the Copernican theory that the earth revolves around the sun

"We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Laws, in nature, tell us to recognize him--our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude."

--Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, 1861

"God is with us."

--Motto on the belt buckles of Kaiser Wilhem's soldiers during the Great War

JERRY FALWELL: "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way--of of them who have tried to secularize America--I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'"

Christian evangelist Jerry Falwell [to] Pat Robertson during a 2001 broadcast on the Christian Boradcasting Network [re: the attack of 9/11].

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Those so inclined might be interested in reading more of this fine book. --sapphoq