Religious Animosity Quotes

It's way beyond ironic that a place called the Holy Land is the location of the fiercest, most deeply felt hatred in the world. And it makes for wonderful theater.

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.

The bitter enmity now raised by the [Muslim] League and its leaders will have to be paid for 100 percent.

Neither experience nor improvement can root out the inveterate prejudices of the Roman Catholics, or render them less cruel or inexorable to Protestants.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

Once started religious strife has a tendency to go on and on, to become permanent feuds.

Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible.

I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.

It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.

I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.

The capitalist class is interested in keeping the workingmen divided among themselves. Hence it foments race and religious animosities that come down from the past.

Iran, Ireland, Israel. That's three countries, four religions that HATE each other. Way to go, 'I'.

What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense.

... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

… the strangest sight in the world—two races hating one another for the love of God

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.

I hate BYU. There are a lot of Mormons that don't like BYU.

Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.

I have often wondered, that persons who make a boast of professing the Christian religion, namely, love, joy, peace, temperance, and charity to all men, should quarrel with such rancorous animosity, and display daily towards one another such bitter hatred, that this, rather than the virtues they claim, is the readiest criterion of their faith

Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all - to befriend them and to do them honour simply in order to be cheated, plundered, robbed, disgraced, and forced to howl and curse and suffer every kind of evil, to him I would commend the Jews. And if this is not enough, let him tell the Jews to use his mouth as a privy, or else crawl into the Jew's hind parts, and there worship the holy thing, so as afterwards to be able to boast of having been merciful, and of having helped the Devil and his progeny to blaspheme our dear Lord.

Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve.