Quotes tagged "apostasy"

It would take me a few weeks outside that cycle of conflicts to realize that I am destined to be centerless, one lone flaming planet outside of a livable orbit. Opportunistically, I should like to present my definition of destiny: It is what I should have avoided but I dared not. It is what I wanted to embrace even when I saw in it my death. It is the seductive angels of fire and the celebrating djinns. It is what I must break ties with and commit apostasy.
— Marwan Hisham Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War

Tags: hope, destiny, despair, apostasy

People who change their religion should face the death penalty.
— Zakir Naik

Tags: religion, islam, fanaticism, death-penalty, bigotry, apostasy

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.
— Norman G. Finkelstein Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror

Tags: zealotry, united-states, revelation, religion, reason, rationality, politics, conversion, christopher-hitchens, apostasy