„The next day the newspaper headlines read, "Cat Says, Kill Rushdie." I was abhorred, but what could I do? I was a new Muslim. If you ask a Bible student to quote the legal punishment of a person who commits blasphemy in the Bible, he would be dishonest if he didn't mention Leviticus 24:16.“
As quoted in "Cat Stevens Breaks His Silence," by Andrew Dansby in Rolling Stone (14 June 2000) http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/catstevens/articles/story/5927176/cat_stevens_breaks_his_silence; Leviticus 24:16 reads : "And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death."
Kontext: I'm very sad that this seems to be the No. 1 question people want to discuss. I had nothing to do with the issue other than what the media created. I was innocently drawn into the whole controversy. So, after many years, I'm glad at least now that I have been given the opportunity to explain to the public and fans my side of the story in my own words. At a lecture, back in 1989, I was asked a question about blasphemy according to Islamic Law, I simply repeated the legal view according to my limited knowledge of the Scriptural texts, based directly on historical commentaries of the Qur'an. The next day the newspaper headlines read, "Cat Says, Kill Rushdie." I was abhorred, but what could I do? I was a new Muslim. If you ask a Bible student to quote the legal punishment of a person who commits blasphemy in the Bible, he would be dishonest if he didn't mention Leviticus 24:16.
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„When people say that the Bible and politics don't mix, I ask them which Bible they are reading.“
— Desmond Tutu South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner 1931
Attributed but unsourced
Quelle: http://www.christianaid.org.uk/ActNow/blog/january-2015/Faith-and-politics-a-match-made-in-heaven.aspx
Quelle: https://www.durhamcathedral.co.uk/worshipandmusic/sermon-archive/anticipating-the-general-election
„Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.“
— Karl Barth Swiss Protestant theologian 1886 - 1968
— Kent Hovind American young Earth creationist 1953
-Edited Version- Pastor Steve Anderson interviews Dr Kent Hovind (Re-upload) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y4J7o62-w8, Youtube (January 22, 2015)
— Mark Driscoll American pastor 1970
Barry, John D. " Bible Study Anywhere http://www.biblestudymagazine.com", Bible Study Magazine, Mar-Apr 2009, pg. 14.
— Dwight L. Moody American evangelist and publisher 1837 - 1899
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 40.
— Richard Dawkins English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author 1941
https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/307369895031603200 (28 February 2013)
Twitter
— Dietrich von Choltitz German general 1894 - 1966
Ich habe den Feldmarschall von Manstein gefragt, ob er an der Aktion gegen Hitler teilnehmen würde. Manstein sitzt in einem Sessel und liest in der Bibel. Schnell, fast verlegen, legt er sie zur Seite und deckt sie mit Papieren zu.
About Erich von Manstein, "Der Spiegel", nr. 14, p. 12, 2 April 1952, spiegel.de http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-21694964.html
— Brigham Young Latter Day Saint movement leader 1801 - 1877
Journal of Discourses 14:226-227 (August 27, 1871)
1870s
— Derrick Jensen, buch The Culture of Make Believe
Quelle: The Culture of Make Believe (2003), p. 56
— Fred Brooks American computer scientist 1931
As quoted in Quoted Often, Followed Rarely, http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/12/12/8363107/index.htm;About the 1975 The Mythical Man-Month.
— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
If this is the honest result, then you are compelled to say, either that God has made no revelation to me, or that the revelation that it is not true, is the revelation made to me, and by which I am bound. If the book and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and the brain do not agree? Either God should have written a book to fit my brain, or should have made my brain to fit his book.
Some Reasons Why (1881)
„Both read the Bible day and night,
But thou read'st black where I read white.“
— William Blake English Romantic poet and artist 1757 - 1827
Campbell's recollection in 1819 after a visit to Swellendam, quoted in Die Wêreld van Susanna Smit, 1799–1863, Schoeman (1995)
