It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of stuff; and it comes from the other side, too, from the Protestants burning the Catholics. It comes from the insensate pursuit of innocent and crazy old women, and from the Puritans in America burning and hanging the witches — and it comes not only from the Christian church but also from the Taliban. Every single religion that has a monotheistic god ends up by persecuting other people and killing them because they don't accept him. Wherever you look in history, you find that. It’s still going on.
Philip PullmanStichwörter: history persecution protestants puritans religious-persecution torture witches jews inquisition catholics heretics monotheism taliban
This authority stood steady as the cathedral itself. The building was raised once and for all, and for those who dare doubt it, something else was raised: The witch fires.
André BjerkeStichwörter: opposition burning heresy heretics
All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.
E.Y. HarburgStichwörter: conformity heroes heretics
One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself the usual thunderous curses—'may his name be forgotten, may his bones be worn to nothing'—along with detailed refutations and denunciations by Abraham ibn Ezra and others. These exciting anathemas, of course, ensured that his worrying 'questions' would remain current for as long as the Orthodox commentaries would be read. In this way, rather as when Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' Jewishness contrives irony at its own expense. If there is one characteristic of Jews that I admire, it is that irony is seldom if ever wasted on them.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: religion atheism self-deprecation irony jews judaism curses heretics maimonides messiah abraham-ibn-ezra hiwi-al-balkhi jewishness orthodox-judaism
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (“Tomorrow”)
Yevgeny ZamyatinStichwörter: tolstoy christ heresy heretics
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
Yevgeny ZamyatinStichwörter: art literature heresy heretics
Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.
("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")
Stichwörter: art writing writers heretics
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic
Ludwig WittgensteinStichwörter: ideas fools negotiation heretics
If the moderns really want a simple religion of love, they must look for it in the Athanasian Creed. The truth is that the trumpet of true Christianity, the challenge of the charities and simplicities of Bethlehem or Christmas Day never rang out more arrestingly and unmistakably than in the defiance of Athanasius to the cold compromise of the Arians. It was emphatically he who really was fighting for a God of Love against a God of colourless and remote cosmic control; the God of the stoics and the agnostics. It was emphatically he who was fighting for the Holy Child against the grey deity of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. He was fighting for that very balance of beautiful interdependence and intimacy, in the very Trinity of the Divine Nature, that draws our hearts to the Trinity of the Holy Family. His dogma, if the phrase be not misunderstood, turns even God into a Holy Family.
G.K. ChestertonStichwörter: love christianity god pagans the-trinity heretics god-is-love athanasius
Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last. This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church. They cast off the form of truth, because it never has been to them more than a form. They endure not, because they never have tasted that the Lord is gracious; and they never have had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.
John Henry NewmanStichwörter: christianity god self-knowledge the-church god-s-grace heretics infidels
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