Discussing the proposed construction of a Muslim community center a couple blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center on May 20, 2010. (Muslims do not worship a monkey god, they believe Allah is the god portrayed in the Hebrew Bible.)
Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/19/2010-05-19_tea_party_leader_mark_williams_says_muslims_worship_a_monkey_god_blasts_ground_z.html#ixzz0oSztJ4jD
Williams's "correction" to the previous statement.
“Magic consists of, and is acquired by the worship of the gods.”
Quoted by H.P. Blavatsky, in The Theosophical Glossary, http://theosophy.org/Blavatsky/Theosophical%20Glossary/Thegloss.htm (1892)
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Of Godliness.
A short Schem of the true Religion
The Blasphemer: The Price I Paid for Rejecting Islam
M. Shokoohy: “Two fire temples converted to mosques in central Iran”, Papers in Honour of Professor Mary Boyce, EJ. Brill, Leiden 1985, p.546.
Source: 2000s, Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple (2002)
“Primitive religions consisted mainly in the worship of the powers of nature.”
...the essential thing in religion was not morality, but the ceremonial method of placating the god, securing his gifts, and ascertaining his wishes. He might even be pleased best by immoral actions, by the immolation of human victims, by the sacrifice of woman's chastity, or by the burning of the first born.
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.1 The Historical Roots of Christianity the Hebrew Prophets, p. 4
As quoted in "Global citizen", interview in Scouts (July/August 2010), p. 41
Context: I believe the spiritual journey that each of us takes on is a personal one, and I feel religion is a delicate road to be on. I don’t like to belong to one religious community as I don’t want people to feel excluded from asking for my help or learning with me. It’s all about bringing people together to celebrate their various interpretations of scripture. I am a Muslim and I worship in mosques when I am in Pakistan. I also worship in Unitarian churches when I’m in the US. Such spiritual freedom is very important to me.
“Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.”
“If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.”
