The Clergy
Tertullian
A Founder of the Catholic Church
"And the Son of God died, which is immediately credible because
it is absurd. And buried he rose again, which is certain
because it is impossible."
Pat Robertson
"[The] feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is
about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages
women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice
witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
"Before the year 2000, the Christian Coalition will be
the most powerful organization in America"
"Many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were Satanists,
many of them were homosexuals--the two things seem to go together."
"It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media
and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians"
"I have known few homosexuals who did not practice their tendencies. Such
people are sinning against God and will lead to the ultimate destruction
of the family and our nation. I am unalterably opposed to such things,
and will do everything I can to restrict the freedom of these people to
spread their contagious infection to the youth of this nation."
"I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to
his wife and the only thing they did was kiss."
"You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the
Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing.
Nonsense. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist."
"When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians
and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. `What do you mean?' the
media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government?
How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo-Christian values
are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple
answer is, `Yes, they are.'"
"I know there are some Christians who believe that war and their participation
in it are morally wrong. While I respect their views and must allow them
to follow their consciences, I do not believe the Bible teaches pacifism."
"When any civil government steps outside the mandate
authorized by God Almighty, then that government does
not have any further claim over its citizens."
"Therefore the spiritual standard for America would be the
gospel of Jesus and everything in the Old and New Testaments."
"The key in terms of mental ability is chess. There's never been a woman Grand
Master chess player. Once you get one, then I'll buy some of the feminism..."
"The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist,
atheistic educators to beat up on Christians."
"I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get
married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband.
Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head
of the wife, and that's the way it is, period."
"The public education movement has also been an anti-Christian
movement... We can change education in America if you put Christian
principles in and Christian pedagogy in. In three years, you would
totally revolutionize education in America."
"We want...as soon as possible to see a majority of the Republican
Party in the hands of pro-family Christians by 1996."
The Bakker's
"I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim."
Tammy Faye
"You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God."
Tammy Faye
"It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific
calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host."
James
Jerry Falwell
"I hope I live to see the day, when, as in the early days of our country,
we won't have any public schools. The churches will have taken them over
again and Christians will be running them. What a happy day that will be!"
I listen to feminists and all these radical gals -- most of them are failures.
They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some
Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women
just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists
need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And
they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're
sexist. They hate men -- that's their problem."
"AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To
oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red
Sea to save one of Pharoah's chariotters."
"If you're not a born-again Christian,
you're a failure as a human being."
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is
God's punishment for the society that *tolerates* homosexuals."
Rev. Alexander Campbell
"There is not one verse in the Bible inhibiting slavery, but
many regulating it. It is not then, we conclude, immoral."
Rev. R. Fuhrman
"The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the
Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example."
Rev. Anthony Kennedy
"Priestesses should be burnt at the stake because they are assuming powers
they have no right to. In the medieval world that was called sorcery. The
way of dealing with sorcerers was to burn them at the stake. It's illegal
now but if I had my way that is what would happen to them. In medieval
times, I would burn the bloody bitches."
"I would shoot the bastards if I was allowed, because a woman can't
represent Christ. Men and women are totally different, that's not
my fault, and Jesus chose men for his disciples."
Rev. Sun Myong Moon
"So telling a lie becomes a sin if you tell it to take advantage of a
person, but if you tell a lie to do a good thing for him that is not a
sin. Even God tells lies very often; you can see this throughout history."
Rev. Donald Morgan
"If God is love, and if God is also omnipresent, then the Devil cannot
exist. If the Devil exists, God cannot be love and also be omnipresent.
Yet, an omnipresent God of love and the Devil are both said to exist. It
doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure that there is something wrong here!"
"Thank God that the Bible cannot possibly be the word of God."
"If the Bible is telling the truth, then God is either
untruthful or incompetent. If God is truthful, then
the Bible is either untruthful or erroneous."
"A thorough reading and understanding of the
Bible is the surest path to atheism."
"Christians say that--without exception--their God answers all of their
prayers; it's just that He sometimes says "yes" and other times "no,"
"maybe," or "wait." Of course the same could be said of the rain-god,"Bob."
"If God existed as an all-powerful being, He would not need
the money that faithful believers donate to their churches."
"Jesus' last words on the cross, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me?" hardly seem like the words of a man who planned it that way. It
doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure there is something wrong here."
" Christianity first creates a problem (sin) and
then offers a "solution" (salvation). This is not unlike the
protection racket; you either buy "protection"--or else!"
Jimmy Swaggart
"The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick
by which the nation measures its morals."
"Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.
Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. ... Only
atheists could accept this Satanic theory."
"Sex education classes in our public schools are promoting incest."
Rev. Thomas Witherspoon
"I draw my warrant from the Scriptures of the Old and
New Testaments to hold the slave in bondage."