Salman Rushdie Quotes About Christianity

Quotes about: Christianity

• Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Violence, Christianity

  "The Iconoclast". Interview with Shikha Dalmia, reason.org. August 1, 2005.

• Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages. It's still in the fifteenth century or whatever. And Christianity in the fifteenth century, after all, was full of inquisitions and burnings at the stake, and so on and so on. So give Islam time, and it will reach the point of maturity that other religions have. But Mormonism is much younger than Islam, and it's got there already. So I don't think that's an argument that works.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Maturity, Giving

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

  Salman Rushdie

  Christian, Ideas, Might

  "The Iconoclast". Interview with Shikha Dalmia, reason.com. August/September 2005.

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