Quotes about Theological Conflict

Mark Twain

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.

Ross Douthat

Our crisis of the house divided was a Christian civil war.

Rick Perlstein

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

Saint Augustine

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

Samuel Butler

Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

Billy Sunday

When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.

J. D. Vance

I eventually got to the point where I was like, 'Well, if I can't believe in the Big Bang Theory and be a good Christian, then maybe I'm not a good Christian.'

Emil Cioran

Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for

Radhanath Swami

The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

Cardinal Richelieu

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

Billy Sunday

If the word of God and scholarship disagree, then to Hell with scholarship!

Martin Luther

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

Mathew Bell

In a religious conflict, there is no room for political compromise.

Dorothy L. Sayers

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

Will Durant

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

Penny Lernoux

At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.

Swami Vivekananda

Man is greater than the gods.

Malcolm Brown

Charles Darwin: 200 years from your birth, the Church of England owes you an apology for misunderstanding you and, by getting our first reaction wrong, encouraging others to misunderstand you still.

The Anglican Church of England like many others were originally threatened by the possibility of evolution. Darwin, himself a very religious man was castigated at the time. In modern days the mass of scientific evidence of evolution is overwhelming and most major religions have also learned that there is nothing inconsistent or threatening in this basic science. There are however some religious fundamentalists (mostly Christian and Muslim) who still reject this basic scientific notion, but this quotation represents most of the modern religious thinking.

Erwin McManus

The system of Christian celebrity was not a good space for me, and it was brutal on my kids - my son in college was frequently confronted by people railing against me as a heretic.

Edmund Burke

We cannot, if we would, delude ourselves about the true state of this dreadful contest. It is a religious war.

Burke did not mean that it was a war between Protestants and Catholics. In his time religious war was considered the most terrible of wars because there were virtually non-negotiable principles involved and the passions were so great. The emotional fervor of the French after the French Revolution was extreme in that they were bringing freedom to Europe.

Theological Conflict Quotes