Category: Money, Sex, Power & Faith
Portions of the book Money, Sex, Power & Faith by Steve McAllister
Protest and Reform
“The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.” – G.K. Chesterton
All About Amerigo
Amerigo Vespucci was a notoriously good self-promoter, with some of his writings receiving a lot of acclaim. Due to his notoriety, when German cartographer Martin Waldseemüler created the first map of the New World in 1507, a year after Columbus died, he named the entire area “America,” based on the feminine form of the Latin Americus.
Conquest of the New World
“For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.” – Christopher Columbus
The Inquisition Gets Medieval
“NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!… Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms.”
– Monty Python
Crusading for Coinage
“If you want to make a little money, write a book.
If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.”
– L. Ron Hubbard
Packing The Canon To Fire
“It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.” – Mark Twain
The Advent of the Ego
“If your ego starts out, ‘I am important, I am big, I am special,’ you’re in for some disappointments when you look around at what we’ve discovered about the universe. No, you’re not big. No, you’re not. You’re small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that’s limited on Earth.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Dawn of Separation
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” – Albert Einstein
In the Time Before Money
“When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.” – Daniel Webster