"Kill them all, God will recognize his own."
(Arnald Amalric, Papal Legate / 1150-1225/ during the Albigensian Crusade)
"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin."
(Robert Cardinal Bellarmine / 1542-1621 / at the trial of Galileo in 1615)
"I don't know that atheists should be regarded as citizens, nor should they be regarded as patriotic. This is one nation under God."
(George Bush Sr. / interview with reporter Rob Sherman / Chicago on August 27, 1987)
"And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard."
(God / Micah 5:15)
"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start a new religion."
(Lafayette Ron Hubbard)
"A man can have sex with animals such as sheep, cows, camels and so on. However he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village, however selling the meat to the next door village should be fine."
(Ayatollah Khomeini / 1902-1989 / Tahrirolvasyleh)
"Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful."
(Martin Luther / 1483-1546)
"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell."
(Saint Augustin / 354-430 / De genesi ad litteram / [Here, mathematician = astrologer])
"Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes."
(John Wesley, English evangelist / 1703-1791)