Betty Williams Quotes

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.

We need to make ourselves deaf to the clamor of the whole world, because war feeds on despotism and is not fought for love of God

The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death, and religiosu wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man?

One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason.

If God is on our side, he'll stop the next war.

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Every time I kill someone, he can't plant an I.E.D. You don't think twice about it.

Every man thinks god is on his side.

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.

Religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it was at any time in the past. The recent conflicts in Palestine (Jews versus Muslims), the Balkans (Orthodox Serbians versus Catholic Croatians; Orthodox Serbians versus Bosnian and Albanian Muslims), Northern Ireland (Protestants versus Catholics), Kashmir (Muslims versus Hindus), Sudan (Muslims versus Christians and animists), Nigeria (Muslims versus Christians), Ethiopia and Eritrea (Muslims versus Christians), Sri Lanka (Sinhalese Buddhists versus Tamil Hindus), Indonesia (Muslims versus Timorese Christians), Iran and Iraq (Shiite versus Sunni Muslims), and the Caucasus (Orthodox Russians versus Chechen Muslims; Muslim Azerbaijanis versus Catholic and Orthodox Armenians) are merely a few cases in point. In these places religion has been the explicit cause of literally millions of deaths in the last 10 years.

Killing, and nothing else, is what the army is for, and the only thing it can properly build is killers and killees.

Are we to continue to struggle, as so many good men struggled in the first dozen centuries of Christendom -- spilling oceans of blood, wasting mountains of treasure -- to achieve what is at bottom a logical absurdity, to accomplish something which, when accomplished, can avail us nothing, and which, if it could avail us anything, would condemn the nations of the world to never-ending bloodshed

Religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God.