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As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next.


Ibn Warraq


#criticism-of-the-koran #death #destructive-cult #houris #islam

But its exclusive character and irreconcileable hostility to the religious cults and ceremonies with which the whole social life of the city-state and the empire were inseparably connected at every turn, brought the Christians into inevitable conflict with the government and with public opinion. To the man in the street, the Christian was an anti-social atheist who would take no part in the public feasts and the games, which played such a large part in city life. To the authorities he was a passive rebel, who would neither take his share of municipal offices nor pay loyal homage to the Emperor. Hence the rise of persecution, and the driving of the Christians into an underground existence, as a proscribed sect. The Church grew under the shadow of the executioner's rods and axes, and every Christian lived in the peril of physical torture and death. The thought of martyrdom coloured the whole outlook of early Christianity. But it was not only a fear, it was also an ideal and a hope. For the martyr was the complete Christian, he was the champion and hero of the new society and its conflict with the old, and even the Christians who failed in the moment of the trial - the lapsi - looked on the martyrs as their saviours and protectors


Christopher Henry Dawson


#martyrdom #roman-empire #death

Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain. The Brothers Karamazov Book VI - The Russian Monk, Chapter 3 - Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zosima.


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#martyrs #prophets #religion #religious-institutions #the-brothers-karamazov

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.


Osama bin Laden


#die #fight #fighting #go #god

I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.


John Walker Lindh


#any #chooses #control #every #exaggeration

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.


Thomas Reed


#been #being #burned #counted #god

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.


Muqtada al Sadr


#fear #i #i wish #martyr #wish

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.


Tertullian


#church #martyrs #seed

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.


Schuyler Colfax


#idea #lives #martyrs #patriotism #their

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.


Emile M. Cioran


#been #cut #great #haven #heads






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