Top Heretics Quotes
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew their profits from the...
Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
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abolition, belief, christianity, freedom, heretics, horror, ministers, profit, religion, slaveholders
One notorious named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself the usual thunderous curses—'may his name be forgotten...
Christopher Hitchens
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atheism, curses, heretics, hiwi al balkhi, irony, jewishness, jews, judaism, maimonides, messiah