Famous quotes about Christian Missionaries

Famous quotes about Christian Missionaries

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"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world". - Voltaire (French Philosopher, 1694-1778)

"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, find, imprisoned: yet we have not advanced one inch towards humanity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support error and roguery all over the earth" - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it"
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish author

Thomas Paine (1737-1809), the American Statesman wrote: "What is it the Bible teaches us? - Rapine, cruelty, and murder". Dr. Paliwal has documented the glorious Church record of rapine, cruelty and murder in Goa from 1510 to 1960.
"The Christian God is cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust." - President Thomas Jefferson "Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it". - Charles Dickens.
"His Majesty the King has ordered that there shall be no Brahmins in his land and that they should be banished."

"In the name of his Majesty I order that no Hindu can or shall perform marriages." "The marriages of the supplicants are superstitious acts or functions which include Hindu rites and ceremonies as well as cult, adoration and prayers of Hindu temples."

"I order that no Hindu temples be erected in any of the territories of my king and that Hindu temples which already have been erected be not repaired."


According to Christian historian, Dr. T. R. De Souza at least from 1540 onwards, "All the Hindu idols disappeared because all the temples were destroyed and their sites and building materials were fully utilised to erect new Christian Churches and chapels. Various viceregal and Church council decrees banished the Hindu priests from the Portuguese territories; the public practices of Hindu rites including marriage rites, were banned; the State took upon itself the task of bringing up Hindu orphan children; the Hindus were denied many types of employment, while the Christians were preferred; it was ensured that the Hindus would not harass those who became Christians, and on the contrary, the Hindus were obliged to assemble periodically in Churches to listen to preaching or to the refutation of their religion".

In this context Kanchan Gupta has rightly stated: "The horrors inflicted on Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition - the Vatican has only recently admitted that the Church was wrong and Galileo was right - are well known. Not that well-known, and tragically so, are the horrors inflicted by the Goa Inquisition. Every child reads about Galileo"s trial and how it is symbolic of the triumph of science over blind faith. But there is no reference - indeed, all reference is scrupulously avoided - to the brutal attempts of the Church to triumph over Hinduism by seeking to destroy all that was Hindu in territories conquered by the Portuguese in India".

Alexandre Herculano, a famous writer of the 19th Century, mentioned in his "Fragment about the Inquisition": "..The terrors inflicted on pregnant women made them abort...Neither the beauty or decorousness of the flower of youth, nor the old age, so worthy of compassion in a woman, exempted the weaker sex from the brutal ferocity of the supposed defenders of the religion...There were days when seven or eight were submitted to torture. These scenes were reserved for the Inquisitors after dinner. It was post-prandial entertainment. Many a time during those acts, the inquisitors compared notes in the appreciation of the beauty of the human form. While the unlucky damsel twisted in the intolerable pains of torture, or fainted in the intensity of the agony, one Inquisitor applauded the angelic touches of her face, another the brightness of her eyes, another, the voluptuous contours of her breast, another the shape of her hands. In this conjuncture, men of blood transformed themselves into real artists!"

Diago de Boarda, a priest and his advisor Vicar General, Miguel Vazz had made a 41-point plan for torturing Hindus in Goa. Under this plan Viceroy Antano de Noronha issued in 1566, an order applicable to the entire area under Portuguese rule: "I hereby order that in any area owned by my master, the king, nobody should construct a Hindu temple and such temples already constructed should not be repaired without my permission. If this order is transgressed, such temples shall be, destroyed and the goods in them shall be used to meet expenses of holy deeds, as punishment of such transgression".

Lord Byron (1788-1824) wrote:
"Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded, That all the APOSTLES would have done as they did".