Scary Religious Quotes
Is this what is meant by the wisdom of the Bible? "Be careful when looking at the stars and planets not to be enticed into worshiping them."
[Deuteronomy 4:19]"In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate’s Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits...."
Martin Luther (1483-1546) German Protestant leader"Contraception contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love."
Pope John Paul II"I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children."
Martin Luther (1483-1546) Protestant leader"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don’t want equal time. We don’t want pluralism."
Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue quoted in The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 8-16-93"They who believe not shall have garments of fire fitted unto them; boiling water shall be poured on their heads; their bowels shall be dissolved thereby, and also their skins, and they shall be beaten with maces of iron."
The Koran, 22:19-21"Things I’ll never give up: My life, Bible and guns."
Sign carried by a religionist, protesting removal of Bibles from Alaska state ferries (1994)"Thinking people would rather have smallpox than vaccination, because the latter sows seeds of syphilis, cancers, eczema, erysipelas, scrofula, consumption, even leprosy and many other loathsome affections. Hence the practice of vaccinations is a crime, an outrage, and a delusion."
"Golden Age" (1/5/29, p. 502) (Golden Age is a predecessor to "Awake" a Jehovah’s Witnesses publication)"Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads."
Martin Luther (1483-1546) German Protestant leader"The Constitution...is a marvelous document for self government by Christian people. But non-Christian people and atheist people can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society."
Rev. Pat Robertson Founder, Christian Coalition"The fool [Copernicus] wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy. But sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still and not the earth."
Martin Luther (1483-1546) German Protestant leader"It is not enough that one be pious and just; one must see to it that others are in the same state; and to this end compulsion is a proper means."
Bishop Rowley Catholic theologian"It is of course always best to be led by God, and have him personally whisper into your ear. Only, when it is the devil talking he will tell you he is God, for the devil is a crafty liar. So you never know who is talking to you."
German-born Theologian Franz Bibfeldt in is magnum opus Vielleicht"It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man."
Pope Leo XIII, "Great Encyclical Letters" (p.16)"Jesus turned every situation he ever faced into a power situation with unlimited possibilities."
Robert Schuller U.S. clergyman, author (Hmmmmnn. How about "My God, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me," on the cross? This doesn’t sound like power to me. Donald Morgan )"Jesus will come in the Feast of the Trumpet October 28, 1992.Watch out!"
The C.O.C. Mission’s Paid advertisement in U.S.A.Today, 10-19-92"Masturbation is killing thousands and tens of thousands."
Ellen G. White (1827-1915) Founder of Seventh Day Adventism"No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise."
Martin Luther (1483-1546) German Protestant leader"Now the man Moses was very humble, more so than anyone else on the face of the earth."
Numbers 12:3 (Allegedly written by Moses himself!)"On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs."
Eusebius (4th century), Bishop & Christian ecclesiastical historian"One Galileo in two thousand years is enough."
Pope Pius XII"Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God’s law, on the Ten Commandments. No apologies."
Randall Terry, founder Operation RescueIf one is willing to make adjustments in the historical claims of the Bible, they can be correlated with the archaeological evidence, if one is willing to take some liberties with the archaeological evidence.
J. Maxwell Miller Biblical archaeologist"If there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book it did not come from the God of truth."
John Wesley (1703-1791) English theologian, evangelist"Vaccination is a direct violation of the everlasting covenant that God made with Noah after the flood. Vaccination never saved human life. It does not prevent smallpox."
"The Golden Age," Feb. 4, 1931 Predecessor to (Jehovah’s Witnesses) "Awake!""We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman."
Martin Luther (1483-1546) German Protestant leader"Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes."
John Wesley (1703-1791) English evangelist"When God destroys innocent children of wicked parents, He is doing the children a favor. This is done to prevent the children from growing up to become wicked like their parents."
Rev. C.B. Middleton, Ph.D. Church of Christ, San Diego, California“Mr. Speaker, a new report says only 7% of scientists believe in God. That is right. And the reason they gave was that the scientists are “super smart”. Unbelievable. Most of these absent-minded professors cannot find the toilet.”
Congressman James Traficant, August 3, 1998. House record page H6885"When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children."
Martin Luther (1483-1546)"As to the common people, ... one has to be hard with them and see that they do their work and that under the threat of the sword and the law they comply with the observance of piety, just as you chain up wild beasts."
Martin Luther (1483-1546)"Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don’t have to prove that scientifically.
It’s a fact."
Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) Nazi leader "The Nation," Feb. 6, 1935"Some [demons] are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds."
Martin Luther (1483-1546) German Protestant leader“Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.”
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, vol. 1, chapter 2"There is no observational fact imaginable which cannot, one way or another, be made to fit the creation model."
Henry Morris, Past President, Institute for Creation Research"There is a sound ... of a kettle boiling. Is it really a kettle boiling? No. Then what is it? Hear what it is. The blood is boiling in the scalding veins of that boy. The brain is bubbling and boiling in his head. The marrow is boiling in his bones."
Reverend Joseph Furniss describing Hell in his book for English children"There will never be peace until God’s house and God’s people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top. .... There is absolutely no way that government can operate successfully unless led by godly men and women operating under the laws of the God of Jacob"
Pat Robertson "The New World Order" (1991)"There’s been a freedom in the Catholic universities in the United States that at times is troubling. To constantly present both sides of an argument, at times you’re going to be presenting things that are not totally reflective of Church thinking."
Father Nicolas Rashford, President St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA"Some races (blacks) began by sexual relations with animals."
Ellen G. White (1827-1915) Founder of Seventh Day Adventism"The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty."
Rev. Jimmy SwaggartThe wall of separation between church and state is a faulty metaphor that threatens religious liberty.
Philadelphia’s Roman Catholic Archbishop Anthony Bevilacqua"The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing...."
Martin Luther (1483-1546) German Protestant leader"Surely, it would be fascinating to have a real encounter with another intelligence [i.e., an alien]. I think we’d have to consider whether we should baptize him."
Rev. Chris Corbally Catholic astronomer, scientist"[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture."
Pope Pius XII, Describing Hitler’s opposition to Russia"A perfect society has the right to existence...and the power of capital punishment.... The Catholic Church is a perfect society, and...has the right... to take means to safeguard its existence."
The Tablet, Nov. 5, 1938 Roman Catholic Periodical"A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him."
Martin Luther (1483-1546)"A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth’s eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white."
St. Augustine (354-430) Bishop of Hippo, Christian theologian"As to the common people, ... one has to be hard with them and see that they do their work and that under the threat of the sword and the law they comply with the observance of piety, just as you chain up wild beasts."
Martin Luther (1483-1546)"Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don’t have to prove that scientifically.
It’s a fact."
Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) Nazi leader "The Nation," Feb. 6, 1935"An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects."
Martin Luther (1483-1546) German Protestant leader in "Against the Robbing & Murderous Hoardes of Peasants""Freedom of religion does not mean we need freedom from religion. The separation of church
and state is not meant to keep religion out of government but government out of religion."
Bill Clinton 42nd U.S. President"God has been sending plagues on the American Nation because of the Supreme Court decisions on school prayer and Bible readings."
Bill Bright, Campus Crusade for Christ"God has given the Bible as a rule book for all society, Christian and non-Christian alike. And Christians who believe the Bible are to influence government and get people elected.
Jay Grimstead , National Director, Coalition on Revival"God is going to judge the entertainment industry."
Rev. Pat Robertson, Founder, 700 Club & Christian Coalition
Regarding the fire that devastated Universal Studios
Note: the good Rev. was strangely silent when fire destroyed his radio station, WNTR [4-24-96]"God will not ignore you. He will answer your calls. He doesn’t say how or when."
Robert Schuller U.S. clergyman, author
(Which is, of course, the same thing as saying there is no point in "calling.")"Government in the U.S. should look to the Pope for morally binding interpretations of the natural law."
Charles Rice Notre Dame Professor"Heretics have [always] been hated; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed and butchered; but it [is usually] impossible to smother them; the society that has succeeded has always declined."
Learned Hand (1872-1961)"How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares ‘God wills it thus.’ Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)"How I will laugh! How I will rejoice. How I will shout when I hear so many kings, who, it was believed, would go to heaven... groaning in the deepest abyss of darkness...."
St. Tertullian (born c. 160 B.C.)"I do not know how evil could originate with good God. I am baffled by it, and it remains a troublesome mystery to me.... I cannot solve the dilemma of evil...."
R. C. Sproul Christian apologist "Reason to Believe," p. 125-6"I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist."
Martin Luther (1483-1546) German Protestant leader