Everything You Know About God is Wrong Quotes

“The Catholic Inquisition is well-known for its persecutions, but the Protestants were no better. An infamous example of Protestant evil, an example given by Thomas Jefferson, is the execution of Michael Servetus. A Spanish physician, Servetus wrote that the doctrine of the Trinity makes no sense, that it contradicts the idea that there is only one God. Servetus was condemned to die by the Catholic Inquisition, but he wasn't present, so they couldn't kill him. He had fled to Protestant Switzerland, expecting to be protected there. Instead, the city leaders in Geneva, with the approval of John Calvin (one of the great fathers of Protestant thought) and other Protestant leaders across Europe, had Servetus burned alive (with green wood to give him longer to repent) in 1553.”
― Russ Kick, Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion

“Despite his explicit and repeated disavowal of anti-Semitism, LaHaye has made odd comments about Jews, saying to Slate.com journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, “Some of the greatest evil in the history of the world was concocted in the Jewish mind.”
― Russ Kick, Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion

“At the age of twelve [his daughter] Mary Rodgers Guettel asked her father whether he believed in God and he answered that he believed in people. ‘If somebody is really sick, I don’t pray to God, I look for the best doctor in town.”
― Russ Kick, Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion