Boy Crucified Quotes

“Sex with someone you loved-that was magic. Sex with someone you hardly knew-that was animal. It felt good, but afterward it felt bad, as if it punctuated your loneliness and aloneness.”
― Jerome Wilde, Boy Crucified

“Freedom of religion gives you a broad scope to do a lot of things that might be considered abusive.”
― Jerome Wilde, Boy Crucified

“When it comes to religion, we have a funny habit of believing things that make us feel better about ourselves."

"What do you mean?"

"Heaven," I said, "is a good example. When someone dies, we want to believe they went to a better place. We want to deny their death, deny its finality. We want to pretend that life goes on, in some other way, in some nice place like heaven. It’s very self-serving.”
― Jerome Wilde, Boy Crucified

“In fact, when it comes to religion, the more fact-free, the better.”
― Jerome Wilde, Boy Crucified

“The old hurts still had the ability to bite, and bite deep.”
― Jerome Wilde, Boy Crucified

“That's the problem with God, the constant silence. If God wanted to have a relationship with us, why didn't He? What was preventing Him? Why were some blessed with visions and divine favors while the rest of us were left to stumble around in darkness?”
― Jerome Wilde, Boy Crucified

“That’s the oldest sin of all. Pride. Spiritual pride. Believing that you’re better than others. Believing that you’re enlightened, you’re smart, you’re in the know, and everyone else is stumbling about blindly in the darkness. The old us-versus-them. My group is better than your group. My people, my nation, my country, my religion, my gender, my sexual orientation. Old as sin. And it’s a Big Lie.”
― Jerome Wilde, Boy Crucified