Hellfire Quotes
Usury in orthodox Muslim terms means the charging of interest. Modern Islamic societies have developed a variety of methodologies for dealing with the usury prohibition yet functioning in a modern capitalist system. Orthodox Jews also have a Biblical prohibition against loans with interest. Fundamentalist Protestants of some sects also believe that loaning or borrowing money and charging interest is a sin prohibited by God.
This Hadith is said to represent the view of the Prophet, Muhammad. In Islam its authority is second only to the Koran itself. This quotation is given by many Muslim Imams to illustrate that suicide of any kind is contrary to Islam. Therefore these imams condemn suicide bombing as un-Islamic. Others—the terrorists—obviously disagree.
These quotations taken from one of Martin’s books illustrate the extreme language and intensity of feeling that was engendered amongst some Christian Fundamentalists when Evolution began to be taught in high schools. Martin and like-minded fundamentalists truly believed that the youngster who attended classes in Evolution would burn in Hell eternally.
Referring to one of his harshest critics, Rev. Jerry Falwell: