427 Quotes by Christina Engela

16 days of activism? I don’t know about you folks, but I’m an activist every single day.

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’?

Religious extremism is fatal to those who don’t conform to its values, or remold or submit themselves to its ‘principles’. It craves control and power – and power is the one tool that enables it to wreak its characteristic havoc, destruction and cruelty upon those it chooses to label as scapegoats. Giving in to extremists enables them and empowers them – and worse, it encourages them.

If you ‘don’t do politics’, trust me – politics will do you.

There’s no point in arguing with an idiot – save for exposing their stupidity in their own words.

You cannot defend human rights without fighting religious fanatics – regardless of one’s own religious experience – it is unavoidable. Why? Because they are the ones who take issue with how other people live their lives instead of minding their own business.

We are told that religion says: ‘God gave us brains’ – and then they also quickly add: ‘-but God doesn’t want us to use them’. Ridiculous.

What would Jesus do? One thing is obvious, if there is one thing Jesus would NOT do – is to behave like his followers.

If all people were to be judged by ‘right and wrong’, nobody would be wholly right or wholly wrong – for have not all people ‘sinned and fallen from the glory of God’? It seems more than a little unfair that some folks with at least as much ‘sin’ themselves as any gay or trans person, like to jump up and down and point fingers at other people.