“In Germany they came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left
to speak up for me.”
―
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left
to speak up for me.”
―
“If and when it is ever fully realized, the emerging paradigm shift presented here could forever change how the three great Western religions—the “people of the Book,” as the Qur’an calls the descendants of Abraham—understand their holy scriptures and their relationship to each other. This paradigm shift could even help to usher in—at long last—peace in the Middle East.”
― The Brother of Jesus and the Lost Teachings of Christianity
― The Brother of Jesus and the Lost Teachings of Christianity
“المسلمون اليوم تحميهم أميتم..فقط لأنهم أميون لا يقرأون و غارقين في الجهل فهم مطمئنون و فرحون بصحة كل ما لديهم هم يتنصلون من الاسئلة العلمية التي تواجههم بكل سذاجة..لكن حين يبدأون بالبجث العلمي الجاد سيبدأ الشك من زحزحتهم من مواقعهم الايمانية. و لهذا فمن حسن حظ الاسلام فيهم اليوم أن أمته لا تقرأ كتبها”
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“As we enter the third millennium, our human community is rent by war, increasing distrust, and the loss of a sense of our common nature and past. We seem to be more tempted than ever to define ourselves in opposition to the Other and more threatened than ever by a paradigm, or worldview, that separates rather than unites us.”
― The Brother of Jesus and the Lost Teachings of Christianity
― The Brother of Jesus and the Lost Teachings of Christianity
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