Autumn Burning Quotes

“The only way a society of diverse people can survive without tearing itself apart over differences in nature is by accepting that ALL people are different, and that no single one of us is more or less deserving of decent treatment, compassion, legal and ethical equality, justice, life, or love, than any other.”
― Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul

“The patriarchy longs for the days 'when men were men' and women were oppressed, subservient - and they can see no wrong in it. It justifies its former power and lust to hold on to it - and if possible, to regain it by quoting fundamentalist and radical religion and tradition and calling it 'love'. Some love. How can oppression and power over another person's life ever be 'love'?”
― Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul

“What other people believe shouldn't (be allowed to) hurt me.”
― Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul

“Not being treated as equal IS oppression”
― Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul

“Irony: When those who call others a 'threat to Christianity' reject the crucial tenets of their own faith themselves.”
― Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul

“Who will be there to mentor those who follow us if we crawl into a dark place and hide, denying who and what we are/ How short-sighted and exceedingly selfish!”
― Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul

“It should be made clear that religious freedom DOES NOT include the right to persecute others, nor the right to take away their humanity and equal treatment before the law.”
― Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul

“Turning the other cheek only gets that slapped as well.”
― Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul

“Those who meet objections to their forcing their religion on others with cries of 'Show respect!' clearly have no grasp of irony.”
― Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul

“Christ asked people who follow him to be the voice for the voiceless - not to wire their mouths shut.”
― Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul

“When religious law becomes civil law, does the state not cease being secular, and become theocratic or theocentric?”
― Christina Engela, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories for the Wicked Soul