Gore Vidal Quotes About Christianity

Quotes about: Christianity

• I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

  Gore Vidal

  Educational, Race, People

  "At Home: Essays 1982-1988". Book by Gore Vidal (Appendix), 1988.

• Christianity is such a silly religion.

  Gore Vidal

  Silly, Religion, Atheism

• The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.

  Gore Vidal

  God, Country, Father

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

• I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Religious, United States

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

• I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...

  Gore Vidal

  Race, People, Islam

  "At Home: Essays 1982-1988". Book by Gore Vidal (Appendix), 1988.

• Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of its forms, could have come with a categorizing of people as one thing or the other.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, People, Enemy

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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