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" These church-goers, they talk about respect, and love and peace and all that jazz, and the minute they're out of that church, they're just as mean and selfish as they were before. It's as if going to church gives them the right to act like, well...like assholes.
They're not all like that, take out parents. They're Catholics and they're good people.
Yes, they are, but what about all those Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland? Blowing each other's brains out over the love of Jesus Christ.
That's political. It has nothing to do with religion or, or, or spiritual belief.
Yes it does. Every war in the history of the world has had religion at its root. And what about those guys who beat the shit out of their wives while the host is still melting on their tongues? All that does is make one lose respect for organized religion. "
― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen
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" Amanda said that Indian religion listens to the drum, to the heartbeat of Mother Earth.
That's pagan, Gabriel, savages do that kind of thing. How can you listen to people like--?
Christianity asks people to eat the flesh of Christ and drink his blood-shit, Jeremiah, eating human flesh, that's cannibalism. What could be more savage-?
Jesus wasn't a man. He was the Son of God.
Hah! Do you wonder why the world is so filled with blood and war and hate when it has, as its central symbol, an instrument of torture?
The crucifix is a symbol of ope, for God's sake, Amanda, I mean Gabriel! It's an instrument of love!
Sure. An instrument of love. If you're into whips and chains and pain. Where do you think them priests get their jollies? "
― Tomson Highway , Kiss of the Fur Queen