bigotry

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

I think we need to develop a powerful dose of tolerance to understand each other__ humanness. None of us is perfect.

When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.

It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows.

London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain _ the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims _ swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.

Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have shown. Many other alleged religious 'hatreds' are not hatreds in the true sense. If I criticise Islamic, Orthodox Jewish or Catholic attitudes towards women, for instance, and I'm accused of being a bigot, I shrug and say it is not bigoted to oppose bigotry.

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots KNEW!

I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.

To be honest, one can only feel glad that so many modern iconoclasts consider Christianity to be full of exceptionally hypocritical, religious zealots - it's biblically accurate and a prophecy fulfilled. The old smoke screen is one of Satan's favorite tricks. He conceals the authentic. He has a persistent strategy of targeting those who remind him of Christianity because he fears those who remind him of Christ.

People who change their religion should face the death penalty.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.

Since my little daughter is only half Jewish would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?

An antisemite is a person who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary.

I am 52 years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote.

How it infuriates a bigot when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned out.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.